"Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime."
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"Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems."
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"Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for the bureaucrat and the statistician, but it would be very dull, and would lead to a very unprogressive society."
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"We're seeing more inclusivity in fashion when it comes to size, and we have to continue featuring more and more diversity."
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"It's very important that people understand that for refugees to come into the USA is very difficult. What upsets me about the whole situation is that people don't know the difference between a migrant and a refugee; they don't have respect for what people are coming from - the people who against it - and they have completely forgotten this is what built our country, the diversity. When it is put forward that masses of people are dangerous, and the actual numbers and the situation are proven to be completely the opposite of the way they're presented publicly, it's horrible."
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"The diversity of language alienates man from man"
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"Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?"
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"Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone."
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"I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity."
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"You can see why there are more people wanting to come from economically-distressed areas, and they can't all come to America. So it gets into the valid, legitimate debate over immigration as to how do we choose. Do we have a diversity lottery and take people from everywhere, do we base it more on merit?"
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"In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans."
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"Because creation was made in the image of a God who is equally one and many, the human race will finally be reunited and our racial and cultural diversity will remain intact in the renewed world. The human race finally lives together in peace and interdependence. Glory to God in the highest goes with peace on earth."
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"Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy."
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"The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature."
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"Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future."
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"Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple."
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"Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide."
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"Unity in variety is the plan of the universe."
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"You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people."
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"I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great."
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