Quotes About Diversity

For just like the rainforests and the coral reefs, the languages of the world are vanishing. At an estimated death-rate of one language every two weeks, it seems that before this century is out, between half and three-quarters of the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared, and among them almost all the languages of small preliterate societies.

The real differences between languages, he argued, are not in what a language is able to express but rather in "what it encourages and stimulates its speakers to do from its own inner force.

The new anthropology required each culture to be understood on its own terms, as a product of its own evolution rather than as merely an earlier stage in the ascent toward Western civilization.

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too.

Another area where languages often display erratic behaviour is what linguists call 'gender',

Linguistic "technology" in the form of sophisticate grammatical structures is not a prerogative of advanced civilization, but is found even in the languages of the most primitive hunter-gatherers. As the linguist Edward Sapir memorably put it in 1921, when it comes to the complexity of grammatical structures "Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam".

The conventional predictions are that within two to three generations at least half the world's six thousand or so languages will have disappeared, especially those remote tribal tongues that are really different from what seems natural to us.

He wasn't a poet, not everyone is.

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.

Whatever the theological and ritual differences among modern Jews, Christians, and Muslims (in all their diversity), both internally and externally, the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem in 70 is for all of them an essential episode in their intertwined and often competitive histories. Countless people over the last two thousand years have drawn strategic, philosophical, spiritual, and personal lessons from the war of Jews

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

In fact, I think it would be preferable if we split up. We can watch a wider expanse that way.

Yes, he even romped like a normal kitten, despite his eyelessness. In short, he was eminently lovable … at least by all standards except the one with which most humans preoccupied themselves: his appearance. Finally,

grown up poor in the midst of Southern California affluence, graduated from Stanford Law School, and held a series of jobs, including corporate lawyer, developer of vast Southern California orange groves, and deputy chair of

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Each body has its art...

They walk down Westheimer, a long, long street that always smells of burnt rubber and carbon monoxide, occasionally interrupted by the aromas of foods from all over the world: Mexican, Japanese, Indian, Brazilian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Guatemalan, etc.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Ha ketten gondolják ugyanazt, az nem is hasonló; ha sokan gondolnak hasonlót, az ugyanaz.

The Brandreth Rule is: when in Rome, do as the Romans do—speak English.

At a bus station: TOILETS ONLY FOR DISABLED PREGNANT CHILDREN

No es por filantropía que hay que tener un país menos desigual, más homogéneo. Es para darle viabilidad al país mismo:

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.