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No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matt...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they ...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and thes...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best...

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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so ric...

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We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity...

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I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...

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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the...

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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for dive

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, i...

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It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait ca...

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I quickly realized that there are two main kinds of diversity—demographic and moral. ... Once you ma...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His ...

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Karen ArmstrongA History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kin...

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The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high ...

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Lewis ThomasThe Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim...

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There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in...

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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...

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Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. Th...

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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to count...

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Michael PollanSecond Nature: A Gardener's Education

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply wo...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jott...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remembe...

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In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so for...

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The children of the Fulcrum are all different: different ages, different colors, different shapes. S...

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The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we ar...

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It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse...

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It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse...

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Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War,...

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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate ...

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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ...

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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday ...

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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about...

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Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to k...

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I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for...

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How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo...

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In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, ...

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In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, ...

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In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, ...

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In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, ...

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The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has...

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Vasily GrossmanAn Armenian Sketchbook

For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mou...

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I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I bel...

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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a se...

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As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands ap...

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The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had...

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There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for ...

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We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesti...

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A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots...

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There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel...

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I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The on...

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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if cons...

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Theodore RooseveltThe Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt

She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever hap...

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Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are...

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The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in...

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Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you lea...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Birthday of the World and Other Stories

In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest...

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Song of myselfI am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever ...

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It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire facu...

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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh."Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good m...

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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, toleranc...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear eithe...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, r...

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If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelmi...

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Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

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The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to hate...

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Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide ...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-cons...

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The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addi...

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The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others ...

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And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - se...

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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an ext...

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In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and ch...

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Life is most transfixing when you are awake to diversity, not only of ethnicity, ability, gender, be...

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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans fo...

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The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them...

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Multiculturalism should not mean that we tolerate another culture’s intolerance. If we do in fact su...

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One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. The...

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You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. ...

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Like many white liberals, Ken sees the “whiteness” of his social life as more an accident of circums...

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Bell hooksTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, samenes...

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Bell hooksTeaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into peopl...

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