Quotes About Divergence

The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences

los que dicen que las personas son creadas de dos en dos se equivocan. Nadie se parece a nadie.

The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.

History was full of divergence points nobody could get anywhere near—from Archduke Ferdinand's assassination to the battle of Trafalgar. Events so critical and so volatile that the introduction of a single variable—such as a time traveler—could change the outcome. And alter the entire course of history.

After all,' she said, 'many people have little enough patience or understanding for their fellow human beings who are only superficially different to them — so how would it be for little people with blue skins who can fly?

To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.

Él se limitó a sonreír y dijo—: Algunos de nosotros tenemos un acabado mate, otros satinado, otros esmaltado.... —él se volvió hacia mí—. Pero de vez en cuando conoces a alguien que es iridiscente, y cuando ocurre, no hay nada comparable.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss but every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you, nothing will compare

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.

And, as you know, opinions are like assholes---everybody has one.)

Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her own "measure" is his way of putting it. This idea has entered very deep into modern consciousness. It is also new. Before the late eighteenth century no one thought that the differences between human beings had this kind of moral significance.

This is not "how your story ends". It's simply where it take a turn you didn't expect.

The customers were mainly people middle-aged or older, and they'd probably take a sledge hammer to anything that spewed out the top forty. This was Lawrence Welk country. A wild tune was a polka.

Accept all kinds of people, even those that use mild sauce.

One man's quiet is another man's din.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he was the last to be cast and the tin had run out. Still, there he stood, just as steadfast on his one leg as the others on their two.

His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity.

we are all distinct—what will work for one person may not work for another; this variation between individuals is perhaps the most fundamental of evolutionary observations.

Wider ranges of normal make the world a better place for everyone.

It is remarkable that different people will have different thoughts when they look at the same thing.

some straight and some gay, all of whom

Coming into repeated contact with the same few others does not have the same consequences as meeting new people, either for human culture or for culturing microbes.

Do not be a follower, because others like it, but be different want You like it. Jan Jansen