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Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others.
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.
Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.
Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.
For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.
I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
I was always inspired by Sigourney [Weaver]. She's been able to have such beautiful diversity in her career and that's a really impressive thing.
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
Hopefully, I'll be a part of ABT, in some way, forever. I think I'll always be a part of ballet and try to push diversity, for as long as I live.
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
It's really sad to me that we even have to talk about diversity in the fashion world today. That I would love to change. Diversity should be normal.
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.
After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.
The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.
For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.
I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.
One of the strengths of this country has been our diversity. One of the strengths of this country has been the fact that we are a nation of immigrants.
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
I like diversity. I'd like there to be all levels of gay and straight, all different variations of gender, all colors, all creeds. I'm into seeing that.
We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
I want to leave Accenture better than I found it. I am focused on investing our people, our community and effective diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
I am attracted to the diversity of different characters. I like doing things that test the boundaries of character and genres, outside the comfort zone.