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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. ↗

— Allan Bloom

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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

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I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in. ↗

— Debbie Gibson

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Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes. ↗

— Dick Durbin

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Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand. ↗

— Leo Durocher

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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand. ↗

— Fred Durst

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