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Allan Bloom - To recognize that some of the things our...
To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not. (Allan Bloom)

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

Allan Bloom

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