"Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already."

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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.

— Jeffrey Rosen