Quotes About Divergence

now we have come, as some poet aptly puts it, to the place where men are pulled apart by their destinations.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

I think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we're like everybody else. No group of people are all the same. All women are not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the same. It's the same thing with trans people - we're all so different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different aspirations.

Football is wonderful because no one is right: there's no absolute truth.

I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.

Normal is a piece of string. What's normal for one person is off the chart for another.

Instead of trying to outdo your competition, focus on what makes you different. The goal is to find where you and your product diverge from standard expectations.

There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

Sería estúpido ignorar que entre los individuos hay inteligentes y tontos, diligentes o haraganes, inventivos o rutinarios y lerdos, estudiosos y perezosos, etcétera. Y sería injusto que en nombre de la «igualdad» todos recibieran el mismo salario pese a sus distintas aptitudes y méritos.

Una cosa è credere che tutte le culture meritino considerazione, visto che tutte forniscono apporti positivi alla civiltà umana, e un'altra, molto diversa, è credere che tutte, per il semplice fatto di esistere, si equivalgano.

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One man's fish is another man's poisson.

It's no more normal to be a bank-manager or a bus-conductor, than to be Baudelaire or Genghis Khan,' Moreland had once remarked. 'It just happens there are more of the former types.

Their behaviour exemplified two different sides of life, in spite of some outward similarity in their tastes.

In leaving behind the kind of shell common to all undergraduates, indeed to most young men, they had, in one sense, taken more definite shape by each establishing conspicuously his own individual identity, thereby automatically drawing farther apart from each other.

They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, and the ocean swallows a raindrop.

They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, as the ocean swallows a raindrop.

They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, as the ocean swallows a rain-drop.

Bloody heads and hearts, never match up, do they?

They talk about body language, as if we all speak it the same. But everyone has their own dialect.