• Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They’re so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?  Harold: I don’t know. One of these, maybe.  Maude: Why do you say that?  Harold: Because they’re all alike.  Maude: Oooh, but they’re *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world’s sorrow comes from people who are *this*,  [she points to a daisy]  Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.  [she gestures to a field of daisies]

    Maude: I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They’re so tall and simple. What flower would you like to be?
    Harold: I don’t know. One of these, maybe.
    Maude: Why do you say that?
    Harold: Because they’re all alike.
    Maude: Oooh, but they’re *not*. Look. See, some are smaller, some are fatter, some grow to the left, some to the right, some even have lost some petals. All *kinds* of observable differences. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world’s sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
    [she points to a daisy]
    Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
    [she gestures to a field of daisies]