"To emphasize the importance of beauty is to connect art again to emotion and desire. To find something or someone beautiful is not simply to appreciate what you now see or know about them. It also involves the desire to get to know them better, in the hope that what you will discover will, in some way that you can't know at the time, make your life better, just as your relationship with it so far has also made it better."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Alexander Nehamas

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“Suppose we concede that if I had been born of Muslim parents in Morocco rather than Christian parents in Michigan, my beliefs would be quite different. [But] the same goes for the pluralist...If the pluralist had been born in [Morocco] he probably wouldn't be a pluralist. Does it follow that...his pluralist beliefs are produced in him by an unreliable belief-producing process?”
“I have not seen the National League enough to know.”

Source : Source: m.mlb.com
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party â€¦ and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 27, 2011
“When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.”

Source : "George Steinbrenner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 13, 2010.
“When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.”
“How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit?”
“Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.”
“If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.”

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