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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

— Benjamin Jowett Misattributed

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Benjamin Jowett very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: Actually from one of John Dewey's lectures, reprinted in his Reconstruction in Philosophy (2004), p. 96
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

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