cosmopolite
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The cosmopolite respects and appreciates difference, while acknowledging that “no local loyalty can ever justify forgetting that each human being has responsibilities to every other.”
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2018
In an era when university art departments, like museums, tended to be divided into fiefs, each controlled by a specialist, Mr. Rosand, a genuine cosmopolite, walked a broad terrain.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2014
A curious cosmopolite could learn a lot from last week's ninth Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Anatomist Othmar Solnitzky, wiry little cosmopolite director of the Institute sent out a call to all lands and peoples for collectors' items which he may slice exceedingly thin and map at his leisure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Bishop Whitney, a young man, preached a cosmopolite sermon, quoting Milton and Emerson.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott