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"Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates."
"I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another."
"Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts."
"Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality."
"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
"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."
"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet."
"I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it."
"Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task."
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
"To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace."
"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."
"It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty."
"Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise."
"Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman."
"Difference is of the essence of humanity."
"Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war."
"The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times."
"We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence."
"Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds."
