"In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality."

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Alexander Nehamas

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“The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors”
“You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.”
“Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.”
“One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.”
“Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.”
“I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.”

Source : "Novelist-playwright Ariel Dorfman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 1, 2011.
“By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.”

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