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Diversity
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“Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.”
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“ We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.”
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“What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.”
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“We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities — 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.”
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“A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.”
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“The United States is the only great and populous nation-state and world power whose people are not cemented by ties of blood, race or original language.”
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“No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.”
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“Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.”
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“Whenever a rich variety exists within a biological community, the community has a good chance of remaining stable.”
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“Diversity is the most basic principle of creation. No two snowflakes, blades of grass or people are alike.”
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“Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.”
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“The music of difference, all alive. / The founders and this people, who set in diversity / The base of our living.”
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“It is through the acceptance of a variety of aesthetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.”
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“The facts are in: diverse companies and teams consistently outperform all others. It's not only the smart thing and the right thing, it makes getting the job done much more interesting.”
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“There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. It's over. Give it up.”
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“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”