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Quotes About Unifying

At the root of everything lay the passionate desire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.
~ James H. Billington
The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a unifying and inspiring event, signifying the drive to reach our greatest potential.
~ Conrad Anker
The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
~ Gustav Stresemann
Once again, we must return to the fact that a TV pilot and its resulting series need to be governed by a theme, a unifying or dominant idea. The theme determines the central conflict, and that central conflict must be embodied in the lead characters. In
~ William Rabkin
A unifying theme in all the classical pragmatists as well as their successors is the development of a philosophical orientation that replaces Cartesianism (in all its varieties).
~ Richard J. Bernstein
God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.
~ Sarah Palin
Whence come these unreasonable hatreds, and why their unifying effect? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self.
~ Eric Hoffer
Scientists say that the theory of everything is a technical expression, not a metaphysical one. But a lot of people who hang out at this bar seem to have grand unifying theories. I
~ Jenny Offill
Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
~ Michael Bloomberg
that the Orthodox Church must be the country's unifying force,
~ Anne Garrels
Science has become the most democratic of all human endeavors. It is neither religion nor ideology. It makes no claims beyond what can be sensed in the real world. It generates knowledge in the most productive and unifying manner contrived in history, and it serves humanity without obeisance to any particular tribal deity.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Amalrik had argued that Marxist ideology had never had a firm grip on the country, that the Russian Orthodox Church had lost its own hold, and that without a central unifying set of beliefs, the country, pulled in opposite directions by social groups with different desires, would eventually self-destruct.
~ Masha Gessen
I think I'm like Marmite; you either love me or you hate me.
~ Lily Allen
The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.
~ M. Russell Ballard
The life of a soul does not consist in the contemplation of one consistent world but in the painful task of unifying . . . jarring and incompatible ones, and passing, when possible, from two or more discordant viewpoints to a higher which shall somehow include and transmute them.
~ T.S. Eliot
the discovery of the cause of self-deception amounts to the revelation of a sort of unifying theory, an explanation that shows how the apparently disparate collection of symptoms we call 'people problems'—from problems in leadership to problems in motivation and everything in between—are all caused by the same thing.
~ The Arbinger Institute
Christian socialists were not even democrats, although they learned to say that socialism had to be democratic. They said socialism was a modern name for the unifying and cooperative divine order that already exists.
~ Gary J. Dorrien
Our analysis revealed that whether the nodes in the network are neurons or computers, people or power plants, everyone is connected to everyone else by a short chain of intermediaries. In other words, the "small world" phenomenon is much more than a curiosity of human social life: It's a unifying feature of diverse networks found in nature and technology.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
To provide an example of the types of symbols which are manifested by the archetypes we will look at the archetype Jung called the Self. The Self is the central archetype and its role is in unifying the other archetypal structures of the psyche. According to Jung, the importance of the Self archetype coincides with the fact that it is the source of many of the symbols found in religions and myths.
~ Carl Jung
Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.
~ Mary Parker Follett
Physics is the basic science. One can easily argue that all other sciences are specialized aspects of physics.
~ Isaac Asimov
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
~ Adam Draper
Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.
~ Todd Young
Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.
~ Ross Douthat