"[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment."

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Allan Bloom

#Men Quotes #Taste Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made.”
“Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.”
“Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.”
“One must not hope to be more than one can be.”
“And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.”
“The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,”

Source : "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.
“We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. ...The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success...lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.”

Source : Speech to Liberals in Belmont on January 02, 1903. "CB: a life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 394, 1973.
“I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.”

Source : "Crispin Glover’s Letterman Appearance Explained; Michael Jai White’s ‘Spawn’ Issues: A ‘Freaky Deaky’ Q&A". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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