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Quotes About Plurality

To think that there's one version of a man is ridiculous.
~ Riley Stearns
Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they're not just one thing, they're bigger than just their identity.
~ Nahnatchka Khan
ALL KINDS OF ANIMALS COMING HERE. OCCASIONAL DEMONS TOO. —Ian Anderson, Catfish Rising
~ Peter Watts
I think it's a good thing to have a lot of voices in the media, and I think, you know, let all flowers bloom.
~ Cokie Roberts
I am large! I contain multitudes!
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Intelligence: Born Smart, Born Equal, Born Different
~ Adam Rutherford
If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is uttering not a paradox but a truism.
~ Plato
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
~ Plato
One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or the listener in his own particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced. These two processes lead to a tremendous shattering of tradition.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Diversity in all its forms is the path to greatness
~ James D Wilson
the legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.
~ James Davison Hunter
It takes all kinds to make a world.
~ Aimé Césaire
being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.
~ Richard Flanagan
There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.
~ Ovid
Nature may reach the same result in many ways.
~ Nikola Tesla
There is never only ONE of anything in nature.
~ Carl Sagan
...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.
~ Janne Teller, Nothing
Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.
~ Jerome Bruner
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
~ Heraclitus
Metaphorically, Daoism anticipates something like the butterfly effect. Way-making (dao) gives rise to continuity, Continuity gives rise to difference, Difference to plurality, And plurality gives rise to the manifold of everything that is happening (wanwu) In Chinese thought, this transformation is called Dahua, the great transformation, a principle that seems to express glimpses of universal evolution.
~ David Jones
We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom He begat our spirits as well as the Spirit of Jesus His first Born.
~ Orson Pratt
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
~ Dick Durbin
Difference is of the essence of humanity.
~ John Hume