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To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you."

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Once you start offering reasons for ignoring the interests of others, however, reasoning itself will usually draw you into a kind of universality."

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."

My people—human beings—made the Great Wall of China, the Sistine Chapel, the Chrysler Building: these things were made by creatures like me."

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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