"There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative."

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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Allan Bloom

#Believe Quotes #Entering Quotes #Students Quotes

“Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.”
“More and more, I am beginning to understand why every one who has ever accomplished anything really great and truly beautiful in the past has come to Italy - have lived here and stayed here until some of its imprint has enriched their souls.”
“Sovereignty is a question of principle. We must tell the Iraqis: you are a sovereign people. And you are in charge of your own future.”

Source : Interview, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2003.
“I am filled suddenly with hope. I don't think I will ever die. We are looking for ghosts, but, I think, a good story will do.”

Source : Tony Earley (2001). “Somehow Form a Family: Stories that are Mostly True”, Algonquin Books
“Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try for whatever reason to go about things a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.”
“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”
“I think the American public wants a solemn ***** as a president, and I think I'll go along with them.”
“Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .”

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