"There are many people of cosmopolitan temperament who are not from the elites of their societies or the world; and while, for a variety of reasons, I think a cosmopolitan spirit does naturally go with city life, that's the life of a very large proportion of human beings today. And I don't think rural people can't be cosmopolitan, in my sense."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“With the enactment of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, we have taken an important step toward achieving federal education policies that will allow students to learn and achieve at the highest possible level.”
“There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.”
“I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.”
“We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.”
“I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.”

Source : Song: Mean Mean Woman, Album: Simply the Truth
“[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.”
“A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”

Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
“You can't lead me down that rode.”

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