"And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Jeffrey Rosen

#Beautiful Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes

“It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.”

Source : "America Deserves a Raise" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2014.
“I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.”

Source : "Ben Goldacre: 'It's appalling ... like phone hacking or MPs' expenses'". Interview With Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.
“Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.”
“What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.”
“You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.”
“I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.”
“The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.”
“After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m.”

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