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

— Allan Bloom

#function #important #itself #most #protect

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#man #potential #real #seek #those

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. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#almost #believes #certain #entering #every

My mom knows pretty well how I see her. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#how #i #i see #knows #mom

Security has no place in the life of an actress. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#life #place #security

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#being #consider #days #end #heart

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#anxiety #causes #discourse #going #great

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white? ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#london #our #should #white #why

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#also #capacity #contain #crucial #damage

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

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