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Quotes About Diversity

You're an unusual person, she said. Bill didn't like you, but he never likes anything different. He's so—so prosaic. Don't you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?
~ Philip K. Dick
And yet now and then he let himself steal a glance at her. Lovely dark colors of her skin, hair, and eyes. We are half-baked compared to them. Allowed out of the kiln before we were fully done. The old aboriginal myth; the truth, there.
~ Philip K. Dick
lived on the Coast, in San Francisco. They have the skin thing there, too.
~ Philip K. Dick
I will be at loose ends without a countryman to talk to." "I'm not a countryman of yours," Baynes said. "Oh, yes; that's so. But racially, you're quite close. For all intents and purposes the same.
~ Philip K. Dick
Without a woman we'd discuss racing cars and horses and tell dirty jokes; no civilization.
~ Philip K. Dick
However, just for the heck of it, he wiggled his bent Sidney's out of his coat pocket, thumbed to ostrich comma male-female, old-young, sick-well, mint-used, and inspected the prices.
~ Philip K. Dick
O s? cred ce vreau eu s? cred, iar tu crezi ce vrei. De acord?
~ Philip K. Dick
No two things were the same ever. No two stones, mice, drops of water, snowflakes. What did they call it? Nominalism. Perhaps it applied to people, to the same person at different times. There was no same person.
~ Philip K. Dick
But there are other things than work.
~ Philip K. Dick
Keep away from the literal-minded folk, and ignore the scoffers.
~ Philip Pullman
maybe from other experiences as well, that there are more ways than one, more than two, of seeing things and perceiving their meanings.
~ Philip Pullman
Others? He dares to call us others? He's the other. The one who looks most American—and he's the one who is least American! The man is unfit. He shouldn't be there. He shouldn't be there, and it's as simple as that!
~ Philip Roth
Why can't Jews with their Jewish problems be human beings with their human problems?
~ Philip Roth
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~ Philip Roth
the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.
~ Philip Roth
And, no matter how evolved a person may think he is, he has no right to interfere with the spiritual practices of another, because interference is itself the most un-evolved of all religious actions.
~ David Frawley
True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity
~ David Frawley
Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.
~ David Gemmell
The poor are poor, not stupid — and their living conditions are different in each country.
~ David Gerard
In real life there is not, as there is in every jigsaw puzzle, one picture and one picture only, into which all the pieces will eventually fit," he wrote. "It is the totalitarian mind which thinks that there is one and only one picture.
~ Unknown
There are people who follow a crowd and then there are people who follow a crowd and then there are people who follow a crowd.
~ David Gustafson
Long voyages under sail with crews that spoke many tongues made a ship into a language school.
~ David Hackett Fischer
The people of the southern highlands have been remarkably even-handed in their antipathies—which they have applied to all strangers without regard to race, religion or nationality.
~ David Hackett Fischer
Don't forget: there is no homosexuality in China!
~ David Henry Hwang