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“I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.”
George Bush
“Diversity wasn't always cultivated along the banks of the Charles.”
Arthur Lubow
“Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.”
Jean Genet
“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”
David K Shipler
“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”
Mary Schmich
“Well! Evil to some is always good to others.”
Jane Austen
“Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.”
Thomas Sowell
“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.”
Stanley Baldwin
“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”
Johannes Kepler