Quotes About Diversity

Imagine a world full of Elizabeth Wakefields,' Lila said. 'Could you imagine a duller, more predictable place? I think I'd go crazy.

The Pi Betas had accepted the fact that Rose was Mexican, but it was obvious they would just as soon ignore it. And they seemed to assume Rose wanted to do that, too. The other girls might not be overtly disturbed by the fact that Rose was a chicana, but they certainly were not going to encourage her to explore her heritage. No, if Rose joined the Pi Betas, she would have to deny the biggest part of herself. She would have to become completely American.

Physically she was like a swan among more humble fowl – tall, willowy, and exceptionally pretty with fair skin and golden hair, whereas the Chardins were plain and dark, stocky and short.

They included Robin Wilson, the current Miss Sweet Valley High; Helen Bradley, a stunning redhead; Jean West, a pixie brunette; and Maria Santelli, who could do back flips that took everyone's breath away.

You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I'm not saying you shouldn't read such writers, some of whom are excellent and deserving of celebrity. I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written.

Two: Distract yourself. Paris has something for everyone. Let's imagine you are feeling slightly disenchanted with women. Dozens of places will persuade you that a beautiful woman is nothing more than a beautiful man in a dress.

Books are not cake—you and I can devour the same book, and there it remains for us and others to devour all over again.

All day Annie had watched family members, friends, and neighbors wander around the garden, and she kept thinking how they were all like flowers. Some were poppies, blooming bold and brief. Others were like ornamental vines, passionflowers, or trumpets. Still others were shy violets and wallflowers. And all together, what a beautiful world they made. Everyone different, everyone amazing to behold.

No soy más que un conjunto de muchas personas diferentes, todas ellas muy sencillas.

The universe does not work by our rules

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

Every question, every problem doesn't have a single correct answer. One must permit diversity. A monolith is unstable.

How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.

Bilo koja staza koja sužava mogu?nosti u budu?nosti može postati smrtonosna klopka. Ljudi ne kr?e sebi put kroz labirint; oni pretražuju širok horizont ispunjen jedinstvenim pojavama.

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders

You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life.

Ne možemo li miroljubivo uskladiti naše razlike, ne možemo biti ljudi.

Ich habe eine ausgleichende Funktion wahrzunehmen, und muss gleichzeitig darauf achten, dass die individuelle Entwicklung des Einzelnen einen positiven Verlauf nimmt. Wenn ein Volk nicht aus individuellen Charakteren besteht, ist es kein Volk, sondern ein Mob.

Here, they showed us the Walden Fallacy in ultimate foolishness, explaining: Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

Un líder es una de las cosas que diferencia a una turba de un pueblo. Es alguien que mantiene la individualidad. Cuando hay poca individualidad

Un líder es una de las cosas que diferencia a una turba de un pueblo. Es alguien que mantiene la individualidad. Cuando hay poca individualidad, el pueblo se convierte en una turba.

Balance, it's what distinguishes people from a mob.