"There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

-- Allan Bloom

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“The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.”
“I didn't like dancing in Canada. The managers of the clubs treated me as less than a cow. And Canadians don't tip so you have to ask for more base pay.”

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“Great hopes make great men.”
“Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.”
“These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.”
“The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.”
“Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.”
“I find there aren't that many options as an actor.”

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