"Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another"

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Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.80, Penguin UK

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#People Quotes #Helping Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.”
“Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.”
“I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. . . the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.”
“I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.”
“This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.”
“I have to dig from myself versus digging from something that I like. Digging from something you like is easy whereas from your inside, it's a totally different ballgame altogether. That's not a matter between picking red and blue, it's not like that. It's a decision, it's a choice and, like I've said in the past, it's like jumping off a cliff and hoping you survive the jump.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.”
“Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.”

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