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The question may well be raised, however, whether we could have a community or a society based on this hypothesis of multiple realities. Might not such a society be a completely individualistic anarchy? That is not my opinion. Suppose my grudging tolerance of your separate world view became a full acceptance of you and your right to have such a view. Suppose that instead of shutting out the realities of others as absurd or dangerous or heretical or stupid, I was willing to explore and learn about those realities? Suppose you were willing to do the same. What would be the social result? I think that our society would be based not on a blind commitment to a cause or creed or view of reality, but on a common commitment to each other as rightfully separate persons, with separate realities. The natural human tendency to care for another would no longer be "I care for you because you are the same as I," but, instead, "I prize and treasure you because you are different from me. — Carl R. Rogers

What a journey ... what a day ... what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance ... — Abraham Verghese

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people. — Maggie O'Farrell

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best. — Lady Gaga

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous. — Harry Graham

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s. — Misty Copeland

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about? — Camille Flammarion

I had the impression in art school that cartooning was thought of as a lesser art than painting because cartoons are reproduced, so the "work" is not the single thing like a painting, but instead is the reproduced image. — Roz Chast

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told. — Taylor Swift

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. — Trey Parker

Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are. — Brian Doyle

Knowledge exists to be imparted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person. — Ben Falcone