Diverse Quotes

• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Pain, Men

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• There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Love, Heart, Men

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  Larry Hagman

  Country, Religious, Thinking

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• My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.

  Robin Hayes

  Two, Different, Rural Areas

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• One of the commitments that I personally have now is to a diverse approach to buying businesses, and the operation of those businesses.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Commitment, Buying

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Thinking, America

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Giving, Unity

  "Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics". Book by Rahul Sarpeshkar (p. 3), 2010.

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• I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

  Kristi Noem

  Leadership, Cutting, Government

  FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

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• We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

  Charles Rangel

  Office, People, Community

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• In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Reading, Levels

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

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• In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

  Forest Whitaker

  Moving, Character, Past

  "The Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Q&A Movie Spotlight: Forest". EURWeb Interview, www.eurweb.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

  Fritjof Capra

  Ecosystems, Broken, Community

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• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

  Arthur Miller

  Games, Life Is, Pastime

  Life, February 7, 1964.

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• The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

  Felix Klein

  Sacrifice, Unity, Purpose

  Felix Klein (1922). “Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen: Zur anschaulichen Geometrie. Zur Auflösung algebraischer Gleichungen. Physikalisches. Hrsg. von R. Fricke und H. Vermeil”

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• Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people.

  Jim Ryun

  Cells, Blood, People

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• Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Simple, Ends

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• Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Issues, Groups, Covering

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• Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Philosophy, People, Different

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• I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!

  Robert Duvall

  Character, Acting, Different

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• It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  Giambattista Vico

  Men, Mind, Doubt

  Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”

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• That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

  Jeff Miller

  Loyalty, Country, Self Confidence

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• Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

  David Brin

  Models, Humans, Human Beings

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