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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock

Knowledge Business Society Unless Enterprise See Only Indispensable Noble Fails Well Exist Itself Goes Useless Useless Knowledge Apparently University Conservation

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything. Albert J. Nock

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. Allan Bloom

Music Generation Nothing This Generation Addiction About More Singular Than

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom

Recognized Soon Come Dead Tradition

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

Truth Truth Is Every Relative Says Entering One Thing Absolutely Student He Almost Certain Professor Believes Thing University

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. Allan Bloom

Political Seriously Cynical Heritage Our Critical About Inspired Students Arrive Lacking Wherewithal Either Ignorant Now University

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. Allan Bloom

Entertainment Wait Parents Everything Later Tell Would Entertainment Industry Silver Gives Had Until Industry Understand Rock Always Up Authority Children Grew Public Them Used Platter