c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
— Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
— Carlos Santana
if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
The problem with a lot people is, they are more concerned about their image than they are about their reputation. It should be the other way around.
— Carroll Bryant
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
— Neal Stephenson, Anathem
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
— Anton Chekhov
In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free?
— Non Nomen, The Unwords
[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization leaders have found each other, gotten all involved in each others' social lives, and have ended up talking to nobody but each other. They have not found their followers. Everything tends to degenerate into ineffective cliques, as a natural course. There is no normal public life. Just the mechanics of people learning what s going on is so difficult. It all makes the simplest social gain extra hard for these people.
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Conformity is contagious.
— Isman H. Suryaman
Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.
— Zygmunt Bauman, Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age
What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
— John Webster
To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.
— Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
what type of books you like to read ??
— derek swrtnam
If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves
— Adam Kahane, Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles
— Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Social Crimes
Seek ye not riches, seek but the society of good men.
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
My mom has since confirmed that my overeager go-to response - when I was going anywhere or had anything planned for me - was, "What's everyone else going to do?
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
The thought of friends or family enjoying themselves in my absence gives me the heebie-jeebies.
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
Not unlike a selfie on Instagram or a well-crafted tweet, the computer screen projects the image I choose to portray. We all do it. My life - the glimpse obtained through Youtube - is no more perfect than yours. I'm no different.
— Connor Franta
You're the social one." - Lissa Dragomir
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
Wolves are social. They need their pack.
— Justine Larbalestier, Liar
The unfortunate reality is that, even today, too many citizens have reason to fear that their right to vote, their access to the ballot--and their ability to have their votes counted--is under threat." --Eric Holder, quoted in Give Us the Ballot
— Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Any society can be controlled and pushed on the road to peace and progress but not an intolerant one.
— Dr.Ashok Anand
Always seek to allow others space to be imperfect.
— Alan Downs, The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
It is fine to be involved in social life and bring life to the community
— Sunday Adelaja
We’re not making a world without greed, Jacob. We’re making a world where greed is a perversion. Where grabbing everything for yourself instead of sharing is like smearing yourself with shit: gross. Wrong. Our winning doesn’t mean you don’t get to be greedy. It means people will be ashamed for you, will pity you and want to distance themselves from you. You can be as greedy as you want, but no one will admire you for it.
— Cory Doctorow, Walkaway: A Novel
Problems comes and goes, that's why you have to act like you own them million kind they have exact problems as yours, so how can you call them your problems.
— R- THE DON
Problems comes and goes that's why don't have to act like you own them, Million of human kind they have exact problems as yours, so how can you call them your problems.
— R- THE DON
They knew that no one heard, that bloodless people cannot be made to bleed. So they blew what everyone had heard before, they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening.
— James     Baldwin, Another Country
Imagine a hundred million people clicking polls and typing in their favorite TV shows and products and political leanings, day after day. It’s the biggest data profile ever. And it’s voluntary. That’s the funny part. People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they’ll spend all day telling you who they are.
— Max Barry, Lexicon
Programming is a social activity.
— Robert C. Martin
I wish social disparity has long gone, people can be genuine, and news can be fact-based and error-free.
— Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven
There’s nothing like a friendly handshake to establish social cooperation, but the bonobo handshake takes erotic politics to a whole new level.
— Dr Susan Block
Nobody cares if I die for fighting Marathi breed.
— Kjiva
Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.
— Keith Donohue
Most people have no idea why others do what they do..The whole World from their own little mind decide 'what' it is..Sad when reasonably intelligible people continue to judge & judge..7.2 billion people under the Sun, how many can one please???Therefore....
— Abha Maryada Banerjee, Nucleus: Power Women: Lead from the Core
It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.
— Nathan Filer
Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?
— Stefan Emunds
A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.Tribute to Noah Sealth.
— Válgame, Zori 1ª Parte
Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which you are supposed to represent. Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
— Muhammad Iqbal, Sir
Could some of the challenging behaviours that often partner autism begin as experiements on measuring human reactions? Are these children exploring boundaries - seeing what makes the toy squeak or the adult shriek?
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.
— Nicolas Chamfort
There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology of the person, but rather the interdependency of persons, involving reproducible and sustaining social relations, and relations to the environment and to non-human forms of life, broadly considered. This mode of social ontology (for which no absolute distinction between social and ecological exists) has concrete implications for how we re-approach the issues of reproductive freedom and anti-war politics. The question is not whether a given being is living or not, nor whether the being in question has the status of a “person”; it is, rather, whether the social conditions of persistence and flourishing are or are not possible. Only with this latter question can we avoid the anthropocentric and liberal individualist presumptions that have derailed such discussions.
— Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality we do not. What we have are tyrants.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
We have passed some of the dirtiest chapters of mankind. Perhaps we are heading towards further inhuman treatments in many places such as Syria and Palestine.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
— Sara Sheridan
We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
i'm social but there's a limit
— Jiri Meert Guldemont
Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
— Malcolm Gladwell, 引爆趨勢 : 小改變如何引發大流行 [Yin bao qu shi: xiao gai bian ru he yin fa da liu xing]
They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.
— Charles Stross, Glasshouse
The best tactic against evil isn't confront with him, otherwise is to get away from him
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
— Charles Dickens
Life is too short to care about what other people says and thinks about you. So live life and give them something to talk about.
— Marlene Hansen
If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.
— Denise Riley, War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
To be social is to be forgiving.
— Robert Frost
A precursor to the Social Darwinists, Hobbes argued from th premise that the primordial human condition was a war fought by each against each, so brutal and incesssant that it was impossible to develop industry or even agriculture or the arts while that condition persisted. It's this description that culmintes in his famous epithet "And the life of man, solitary, poor, brutish, and short." It was a fiction to which he brought to bear another fiction, that of the social contract by which men agree to submit to rules and a presiding authority, surrendering their right to ravage each other for the sake of their own safety. The contract was not a bond of affection or identification, bot a culture or religion binding togetehr a civilization, only a convenience. Men, in his view, as in that of many other European writers of the period, are stark, mechanical creatures, windup soldiers social only by strategy and not by nature...
— Rebecca Solnit
Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting.
— Jane Devin, Elephant Girl: A Human Story
Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.
— Owen Hatherley, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
It is never too late to give up your prejudices
— Henry David Thoreau
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh."Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he."Why, what's the matter?""Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it.""Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose."Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
— A.A. Milne
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. 
— Thomas Szasz
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
— Carlos Fuentes
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.
— bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference
—  we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
Song of myselfI am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine, One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same, A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade, my joints the limberest joints on earth and the sternest joints on earth, A Kentuckian walking the vale of the Elkhorn in my deer-skin leggings, a Louisianian or Georgian, A boatman over lakes or bays or along coasts, a Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye; At home on Kanadian snow-shoes or up in the bush, or with fishermen off Newfoundland, At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking, At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the Texan ranch, Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North-Westerners, (loving their big proportions,) Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who shake hands and welcome to drink and meat, A learner with the simplest, a teacher of the thoughtfullest, A novice beginning yet experient of myriads of seasons, Of every hue and caste am I, of every rank and religion, A farmer, mechanic, artist, gentleman, sailor, quaker, Prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician, priest. I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place.
— Walt Whitman
In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.
— Robert Greene, Mastery
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
— Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.
— Deborah Levy, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right at your own front doorstep.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, Walter's Purple Heart
Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The world is rational and creative. It's a wonderful mystery for our minds to discover and celebrate . God's everywhere and we are all different. That's the beauty of it-the sheer diversity. What a tapestry to enjoy.
— Adam Williams, The Book of the Alchemist
There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement the experiment was made on a vast scale and with a heterogeneous population. Such was the case in the rise of Christianity and Islam, and in the French, Russian and Nazi revolutions. The promising communal settlements in the small state of Israel and the successful programs of socialization in the small Scandinavian states indicate perhaps that when the attempt to realize an ideal society is undertaken by a small nation with a more or less homogeneous population it can proceed and succeed in an atmosphere which is neither hectic nor coercive.
— Eric Hoffer
Love is the key to diversity
— Cherrye S. Vasquez
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the “whiteness” of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.
— bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.
— Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.
— George Steiner, Real Presences
The greatest risk most of us will take in our lifetime is that of repression or denial of basic rights of another person. The great risk is that you have no idea what will happen if that person you think so small or insignificant of stands up and totally eclipses the Sun in the universe of those lacking in empathy, humility, and humbleness.
— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army
She had heard all about excluded middles; they were bad shit, to be avoided; and how had it ever happened here, with the chances once so good for diversity?
— Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
I do not believe that Caucasians of the western world are inherently evil. What I do believe is that the powerful subliminal effect of institutionalized racism in American…encouraged and empowered Caucasians to do evil and unimaginable things to people of all colors. ~Commander Jeff - Genesis
— James Morris Robinson, Accelerant (The Sixth Extinction
Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance.
— Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
— Mitch Landrieu
Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich, diverse history as a place named New Orleans and set the tone for the next 300 years.
— Mitch Landrieu
[I]n love, man declares himself unsatisfied in his individuality taken by itself, he postulates the existence of another as a need of the heart; … the life which he has through love to be the truly human life, … The individual is defective, imperfect, weak, needy; but love is strong, perfect, contented, free from wants, self-sufficing, infinite; … friendship is a means of virtue, and more: it is … dependent however on participation. … [I]t cannot be based on perfect similarity; on the contrary, it requires diversity, for friendship rests on a desire for self-contemplation. One friend obtains through the other what he does not himself possess. … However faulty a man may be, it is a proof that there is a germ of good in him if he has worthy men for his friends. If I cannot be myself perfect, I yet at least love virtue, perfection in others.
— Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
Imagine a world where everyone looked the same, spoke the same, ate the same and had one single belief system. Boring right? What makes this world colorful, interesting and fun is the diversity!
— Tina Sequeira, SOUL SOJOURN
One is not required to like a movie in order to learn from it. Our personal views provide a legitimate perspective, as long as we recognize and acknowledge how they may color our interpretation.
— Richard Barsam, Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film
Religion should be a basis for overcoming division, not for creating it.
— Julia Suryakusuma, Julia's Jihad
If you don't have a plan for inclusivity your plan is to be exclusive.
— Catrice M. Jackson
The long-term effect of Hillary’s loss could be more beneficial to the future of America than one might think. For if Obama’s reign placed hope in the hearts of the young and instilled in them a belief that differences must be embraced then Hillary’s crushing defeat has awakened them to the harsh realities of a hopeful indifference and raised their voices in opposition of all those ideals that would not only darken their future but the future of the entire world.
— Aysha Taryam
The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the universal what is relevant to them and alters it by their own interpersonal experience.
— Camila Batmanghelidjh, Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.
— Christina Engela, Loderunner
Because we often think of bias as a function of overt acts of bigotry, we can sometimes remain blind to the invisible structures, systems, and behaviors that bestow and reinforce that power and privilege on a daily basis.
— Howard J. Ross, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives
In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest
In the spirit of being a reflective practitioner of ourselves we must notice your own behavior as an educator and realize how it influences other. Recognize your privileges: race, gender, ability, career, citizenship, language is all privilege. Imagine how you feel in the visitors shoes and adjust to best help them process and contextualize.
— Monica O Montgomery
Orchestrating a diversified team can indeed enhance the higher level of harmony.
— Pearl Zhu, Digital Agility: The Rocky Road from Doing Agile to Being Agile
So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.
— Lila Bowen, Wake of Vultures
The children of the Fulcrum are all different: different ages, different colors, different shapes. Some speak Sanze-mat with different accents, having originated from different parts of the world. One girl has sharp teeth because it is her race's custom to file them; another boy has no penis, though he stuffs a sock into his underwear after every shower; another girl has rarely had regular meals and wolfs down every one like she's still starving. (The instructors keep finding food hidden in and around her bed. They make her eat it, all of it, in front of them, even if it makes her sick.) One cannot reasonably expect sameness out of so much difference, and it makes no sense for Damaya to be judged by the behavior of children who share nothing save the curse of orogeny with her.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
There's nothing good about diversity, other than the food, and we don't need 128 million Mexicans for the restaurants.
— Ann Coulter
My own understanding is similar to that of scholar of religion and pastor Howard Thurman. I find a profound teaching in Thurman's saying that "what is true in any religion is in the religion because it is true; it is not true because it is in the religion." Thurman's saying is true for Christian theology. If there is truth in a theology, then it is present simply because it is true, not because it is in the theology. Whether or not we can find truth in a school of thought or particular theological construction is most important, not the school of thought or particular theological construction. Therefore, I find events of truth to draw on from a diversity of theological writings, rather than locate my work in a particular school of thought. The truth we Christians seek, beyond all our words and all of our labels, is found through unity in diversity. It is the common ground we all long for. No one theology alone is capable of revealing this common ground. We require a diversity taken together, each with its distinctive gifts. Together, these various insights into Christian truth correct and inform one another. This is the gift of ecumenism.
— Karen Baker-Fletcher, Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective
I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand.”Mary Lasswell
— Mary Lasswell
I thought of the great spectrum of The Mecca--black people from Belize, black people with Jewish mothers, black people with fathers from Bangalore, black people from Toronto and Kingston, black people who spoke Russian, who spoke Spanish, who played Mongo Santamaría, who understood mathematics and sat up in bone labs, unearthing the mysteries of the enslaved. There was more out there than I had ever hoped for, and I wanted you to have it. I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in schools, alone, nor on the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. I wanted "Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus" to immediately be obvious to you.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
My hope is that the white and the black will be united in perfect love and fellowship, with complete unity and brotherhood. Associate with each other, think of each other, and be like a rose garden. Anyone who goes into a rose garden will see various roses, white, pink, yellow, red, all growing together and replete with adornment. Each one accentuates the beauty of the other. Were all of one color, the garden would be monotonous to the eye. If they were all white or yellow or red, the garden would lack variety and attractiveness; but when the colors are varied, white, pink, yellow, red, there will be the greatest beauty.
— Abdu'l-Bahá
We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.
— Andrew     Miller, Dub Steps
People are far more revealing by the questions they ask than the answer they give. To get closer to understanding what is really on someone’s mind, answer their questions briefly so they ask follow-up questions. By their third question you’ll get a glimpse of their biggest fear or desire on the topic.
— Kare Anderson, Mutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
To boost bonding among others so they are more apt to work (or play) well together, ask them, when together, to do two powerfully simple things that can be done rather quickly:1. Write down the ways they are like each other. Hint: Create a level playing field. Writing rather than immediately sharing helps slow thinkers keep up with fast thinkers. Fast thinkers aren't smarter, just different in their thinking processes, and each kind has advantages and pitfalls, so they can accomplish more together than when a majority in a group think and speak at the same speed. Hint: Salespeople are often fast thinkers.2. Share with each other what they wrote, going around the circle, one by one.Bonus benefit: Other studies show that when you reflect on how you are similar to those with whom you are talking, you pay more attention to them. You care about them more. That spurs the other person to listen more closely to you.
— Kare Anderson, Mutuality Matters More Living a Happy, Meaningful and Satisfying Life With Others
This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Diversity isn’t a trend
—  it’s a constant battle to change an existing culture that shuts us out.
In the context of the autism world (and my outlook in general) this is were I stand equality is for everyone, everybody in the world - I look at both sides of the the coin and take into account peoples realities (that makes me neutral/moderate/in the middle). That means that you look in a more three dimensional perspective of peoples diverse realities you cannot speak for all but one can learn from EACH OTHER through listening and experiencing. I also try my best to live with the good cards I was given not over-investing in my autism being the defining factor of my being (but having a healthy acknowledgement of it) that it's there but also thinking about other qualities I have such as being a writer, poet and artist.I do have disability, I do have autism and I have a "mild" learning disability that is true but I a human being first and foremost. And for someone to be seen as person equal to everyone else is a basic human right.
— Paul Isaacs, Living Through the Haze
There should be no single representation in the autism world. Think about this if someone got up on stage and talked about having “non-autistic syndrome” and made the assumption every one with this syndrome is the same we would be in big trouble. That applies to autism as well - it isn't one condition, there are profile differences between Autism and AS and all autism "fruits salads" are different. That is how diverse autism is.
— Paul Isaacs, Living Through the Haze
And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.
— Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
Thriving leaders are the ones surrounded by diverse people from different generations.
— Jon Mertz, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders
We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.
— Clement Alexander Price, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.
— Peadar Ó Guilín, The Volunteer
The psychologist Jerome Kagan has argued that parenting has a threshold function: up until that threshold is crossed, the effects of a child's very early experience even out in the end. But parenting that crosses the threshold—abuse, stress, utter indifference—can sink in deep, especially if the baby remains in that environment. There's a lot to be said for this perspective on parenthood, not least that it offers well-meaning parents some relief from scaremongering. It also accounts for the astounding flexibility of the human infant: he is game for the craziest parenting stuff you can come up with.
— Nicholas Day, Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle
We must strongly resist reductions in diversity, especially when it happens, either directly or indirectly, because of our own activities.
— David  Brandon, Tao of Survival: Spirituality in Social Care and Counselling
We must stop pointing to the exceptions—these bright shining stars who transcend circumstance. We must look to how we can best support the least among us, not spend all our time blindly revering and trying to mimic the greatest without demanding systemic change.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
It's not about adding diversity for the sake of diversity, it's about subtracting homogeneity for the sake of realism.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens lets us see different locations, cities, departments of the armed forces. It also allows us to see three commonalities. (1) We are all different. I take such pleasure in seeing the diverse group we call the intelligence community. We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups.(2) This brings us to the second commonality…we are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans.(3) The third and most important commonality is the fact that we all bleed red. We are humankind.These are the bonds that unite us…bond us…make us better beings. I have not mentioned religion because my God allows me to respect other people’s belief. I just ask that as we work through this crisis that we hold dearly on to these three commonalities.The Director of National Intelligence
— James M.  Robinson
A rainbow looks good because the colours demonstrate restrain. Otherwise it would be an ugly blob.
— Arindam Mukherjee
A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself.
— Auliq Ice
To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.
— Auliq Ice
It's funny that being human means so many things, man made divisions counter our judgements towards being wary of the "other", this is worrying because the thing that unites us is being human that is what we all are and without lament but with joy we should embrace everybody we would then live in utopia of diversity.
— Paul Isaacs
How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow.“Very good,” said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn’t have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
Assuming Sandberg's advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career advice for working-class women, a group she clearly knows little about, she would have been just as harshly criticized for overstepping her bounds.
— Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
Finally, there are assuredly diversities of gifts pertaining to diverse breeds of men; and unless we are all reduced to the dull dead level of socialism, and perhaps even in that case, for the sake of relief, we shall continue to stand in need of all these gifts. Let us hope, then, that blue eyes, as well as brown eyes, will continue to beam on our descendants, and that heads will never come to be framed all upon one and the same pattern.
— John Beddoe, The Anthropological History of Europe
I don't know any Baptists who don't want to see folks get saved… you start winning folks to the Lord and baptizing them… They'll pretty well put up were [your methods].
— Richard Hogue
Maybe the word hasn’t been invented yet – that thing beyond diversity. We often define movements by what they’re against, but the final goal is greater than the powers it dismantles, deeper than any statistic. It’s something like equity – a commitment to harvesting a narrative language so broad it has no face, no name.
— Daniel José Older
Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of Christ. Instead of being angry with others for not feeling your urgency about an issue, give them time to come around.
— Holly Sprink, Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity is
— Sameh Elsayed
Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded by the evolutionary invention of sexual reproduction came with a price—death of the individual.
— Richard J. Borden, Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries imported from the wide-open spaces of the countryside into close quarters.
— Charles Emmerson, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
The differences were plain enough, and yet I saw that they were as nothing compared with what we had in common. As I lay in bed at night, the sky outside my window reflecting the city's dim glow, I thought about Abuelita’s fierce loyalty to blood. But what really binds people as family? The way they shore themselves up with stories; the way siblings can feud bitterly but still come through for each other; how an untimely death, a child gone before a parent, shakes the very foundations; how the weaker ones, the ones with invisible wounds, are sheltered; how a constant din is medicine against loneliness; and how celebrating the same occasions year after year steels us to the changes they herald. And always food at the center of it all.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
There were no actual villains, just inertia. The administration genuinely wanted more diversity for reasons of its image as well as fairness, notwithstanding the cranky alumni letters in The Daily Princetonian. ... Hiring committees had not a clue where to look for or how to attract suitable candidates. And so, though a high-level recruitment plan existed on paper, there was only foot-dragging and defensive excuse making.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
— Vasily Grossman, An Armenian Sketchbook
Differences don’t necessarily mean conflict, diversity is beautiful!
— Sahar El-Nadi, Sandcastles & Snowmen
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.
— Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity
The key to successful change is sensitivity towards that which is indigenous and, in the long run, diversity will always be more resilient than monoculture despite the current unsustainable trends in the opposite direction.
— Jonathan Watts, Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The page we have in our colouring book may appear to have a similar outline but we all vary in the way we fill in the space. Diversity keeps us interesting.Celebrate your differences.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
I begged Ana to shut them up, come out as Cuban, play the jail card. But she refused to claim that authority. 'It will mean you, as a Kentucky girl, have nothing valuable to say about Cuba. And Cubans have nothing to say about the rest of the world.
— Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you'll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled at. But there are worse things. Like keeping your dignity safe at home, while the world goes to hell.
— Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.
— Abraham Lincoln
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
— Steve Jobs
Looking at my reflection tonight, I see a new girl staring back at me. She has big hair and big eyes and a big heart. Not only is she the perfect size and pretty...she is smart. -Mackenzie
— Tara Michener, Summer Camp Survival
Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.
— Patti Digh, What I Wish For You: Simple Wisdom For A Happy Life
Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]
— R. Alan Woods, Apologia: A Collection of Christian Essays
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
— Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
— Chief Seattle
Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
— J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, But my heart was full of my new love's glory, My eyes were laughing and unafraid.I met one who had loved me madly And told his love for all to hear -- But we talked of a thousand things together, The past was buried too deep to fear.I met the other, whose love was given With never a kiss and scarcely a word -Oh, it was then the terror took me Of words unuttered that breathed and stirred.Oh, love that lives its life with laughter Or love that lives its life with tears Can die - but love that is never spoken Goes like a ghost through the winding years…I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed, My heart was full of my new love's glory, - But my eyes were suddenly afraid.
— Sara Teasdale
If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great masses of people, unable to have direct contact with more satisfying means of living, take life vicariously, as readers, spectators, passive observers: a world where people watch shadow-heroes and heroines in order to forget their own clumsiness or coldness in love, where they behold brutal men crushing out life in a strike riot, a wrestling ring or a military assault, while they lack the nerve even to resist the petty tyranny of their immediate boss: where they hysterically cheer the flag of their political state, and in their neighborhood, their trades union, their church, fail to perform the most elementary duties of citizenship.Living thus, year in and year out, at second hand, remote from the nature that is outside them and no less remote from the nature within, handicapped as lovers and as parents by the routine of the metropolis and by the constant specter of insecurity and death that hovers over its bold towers and shadowed streets - living thus the mass of inhabitants remain in a state bordering on the pathological. They become victims of phantasms, fears, obsessions, which bind them to ancestral patterns of behavior.
— Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.
— Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis
To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
— Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods
We'll start to forget a place once we left it
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I would have been jostled by men I'd grown up with, run across girls I'd chased and wrestled with as a child. Here, other Colors slam into me and offer not even a faint apology. This is a city, and I do not like it. I feel alone.
— Pierce Brown, Red Rising
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club
Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve
— Charles Baudelaire
The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much. When he walked through the gutted wreck of old Saint Paul's, he tripped and fell over a piece of rubble -- a tombstone. When he got to his feet and dusted himself down he saw that it read, in Latin, 'Resurgam' -- 'I Will Rise Again.
— Jonathan  Barnes, The Somnambulist
The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.
— Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life