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  • ...the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, nothing is lost.   (source)
    diversities = varieties
  • They did not look like the students at his old school; there was much more diversity sprinkled throughout these seats.   (source)
    diversity = variety
  • GEORGE: . . . a race of scientists and mathematicians, each dedicated to and working for the greater glory of the supercivilization. ... There will be a certain . . . loss of liberty, I imagine, as a result of this experiment . . . but diversity will no longer be the goal.   (source)
  • "Yes," she said, "television is one of those unique products of the American genius. A means of keeping a complex country intact. ... Rich and poor, black and white—they share the same heroes... In January the talk is of Super-bowl. In October, baseball. Say what you will, but only Americans could so skillfully build instant bridges among the classes, bind together diversity."   (source)
    diversity = a variety of population groups
  • the deeply thinking Brahman, who scorns diversity, who seeks unity.   (source)
    diversity = the condition of variety
  • "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty diversity of opinion."   (source)
    diversity = variety
  • It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them.   (source)
    diversity = the condition of variety
  • With many variations, suggested by the nature of his building materials, diversity of climate, and a different mode of social life, Governor Bellingham had planned his new habitation after the residences of gentlemen of fair estate in his native land.   (source)
    diversity = difference (variety)
  • Thanks to the stealing, a black market with a remarkable diversity of goods flourished in camp.†   (source)
  • They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League's obsession with diversity, virtually everyone—black, white, Jewish, Muslim, whatever— comes from intact families who never worry about money.†   (source)
  • We want to see more diversity in decision-making roles in the justice system.†   (source)
  • …branches of government, Boris had drawn daggers with his name on them, roses and hearts surrounding Kotku's initials, and a set of spying eyes, peeping slyly to one side, above a partially filled out sample test: Why does man need government? to impose ideology, punish wrongdoers, and promote equality and brotherhood among peoples What are some duties of an American citizen? to vote for Congress, celebrate diversity, and fight the enemies of the state Hobie, thankfully, was out.†   (source)
  • Now if anybody asks me to the Cultural Diversity Dance next month (yeah, right) I won't be able to wear a strapless dress because there isn't anything on my chest to hold it up.†   (source)
  • It was interesting to see how closely they resembled each other despite the wide diversity of national and regional backgrounds.†   (source)
  • Desire, discipline, diversity.†   (source)
  • Its aim is simple; to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity.†   (source)
  • Our motto at Fairfield High is Diversity Breeds Knowledge,†   (source)
  • Now that's diversity for you.†   (source)
  • There was no more diversity to balance.†   (source)
  • The Curious Diversity passed through an immense stone gate, bracketed by two equally massive statues.†   (source)
  • The women, overjoyed by their sameness, their lack of diversity, were, in fact, celebrating their imminent demise, which would render their sameness absolute.†   (source)
  • At a time when multicultural diversity is challenging the literary canon of this country, the major publishers still are barely now responding to the literary output of Chicano writers.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, the truth seems to be that, where change occurs, it is often creating more diversity, not less.†   (source)
  • But the more racial strife they can report, the more the public questions what good any of this diversity brings.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was because they were pushed into doing so by the very diversity they had to overcome.†   (source)
  • This diversity of property ownership divides society into groups with different interests and concerns.†   (source)
  • Thinking of all three, I realized that one was a Southern WASP, one a Sarah Lawrence Jewess, and the last a Polack—a gathering distinguished not only by its diversity but for the sense that all three were dead.†   (source)
  • And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.†   (source)
  • Another thing that was striking was the unexpected diversity of the people who made up these groups.†   (source)
  • That's what has driven the diversity of life.   (source)
    diversity = the condition of variety
  • The school says diversity is a priority, but 98% of their tenured professors identify themselves with the same political party.
  • Like to the Cultural Diversity Dance this weekend?†   (source)
  • She wants to lose twenty pounds by the Cultural Diversity Dance.†   (source)
  • EVERYONE has a date to the Cultural Diversity Dance: Shameeka, Lilly, Ling Su, Tina Hakim Baba.†   (source)
  • Lilly has a date to the Cultural Diversity Dance this weekend.†   (source)
  • What right has she got, I ask you, to dump all over my Cultural Diversity Dance date?†   (source)
  • Are you going to the Cultural Diversity Dance?†   (source)
  • He and I are going to the Cultural Diversity Dance tonight.†   (source)
  • I forgot that Tina has a boy to hang out with, her Cultural Diversity date, Dave Farouq El-Abar.†   (source)
  • This 'un," he continued proudly, "I calls the Curious Diversity."†   (source)
  • And that created more of a problem than accepting the diversity.†   (source)
  • It is a vivid depiction of a group living in peace with its diversity, yet not exploring it.†   (source)
  • The country had not yet committed itself to cultural diversity.†   (source)
  • The States will have a diversity of products.†   (source)
  • Their minds are eager, can't you see, these kids are yearning for real diversity.†   (source)
  • He was lying across the rear seats of the Curious Diversity.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Cedric, they seem to be more, well, accepting of diversity," he says absently.†   (source)
  • The clientele reflects the diversity on the shelves.†   (source)
  • Citizens in such places therefore come to exhibit what Vertovec calls "civility towards diversity."†   (source)
  • The diversity workshop is actually the second such meeting of the day.†   (source)
  • Ol' Tummeler never did anyfing but drive supplies to and fro in the Curious Diversity."†   (source)
  • Official title-"Community Values: Pluralism and Diversity."†   (source)
  • Yet, within its limited space, Costa Rica had a remarkable diversity of biological habitats: seacoasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific; four separate mountain ranges, including twelve-thousand-foot peaks and active volcanoes; rain forests, cloud forests, temperate zones, swampy marshes, and arid deserts.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, but no amount of desire, discipline or diversity can help me pick out the notes to "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."†   (source)
  • Polyface Farm is home to diversity.†   (source)
  • Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases.†   (source)
  • …morphs I knew I ought to flush; and a snarl of packing tape into which I'd cut, painstakingly, with an X-Acto knife, twenty minutes of delicate work, pulse throbbing in my fingertips, terrified of going in too hard and nicking the painting by mistake, finally getting the side open, peeling the tape off strip by strip by careful strip, with trembling hands: only to find—sandwiched in cardboard and wrapped with newspaper — a scribbled-up Civics workbook (Democracy, Diversity, and You!†   (source)
  • My grandfather, who'd worked throughout Africa as a missionary, would often share the truth with me about the tremendous cultural diversity that lies within the continent.†   (source)
  • Nature produces diversity.†   (source)
  • I asked Tina if she had a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance or something, and she got all giggly and said yes she did.†   (source)
  • But the Cultural Diversity Dance is this Saturday, so I don't know how that's going to work out for her.†   (source)
  • Before class started, she was on her cell phone with Bergdorf's, trying to convince them to take her Cultural Diversity Dance dress back even though she'd already removed the tags.†   (source)
  • He sat down next to me and asked if I was all right, and then we had fun for a while CracKing jokes about how all the cheerleaders sure don't practice any cultural diversity, since they were all dressed in practically the same gown, a slinky black number by Donna Karan.†   (source)
  • I pointed out to her that it was a school dance, not an inauguration ball or anything, and that it wasn't even a prom, just a stupid dance to celebrate the diversity of the various racial and cultural groups that attend Albert Einstein High School.†   (source)
  • Michael really didn't have anyone else to hang out with, since Principal Gupta ruled that the Internet is not a culture and therefore cannot have its own table, and so the Computer Club boycotted the Cultural Diversity Dance on principle.†   (source)
  • The only common denominator among the hideous diversity of faces was their calm, unflinching malevolence.†   (source)
  • It is best to acknowledge this, to accept it, and to admire the diversity of temperaments Nature has dealt us.†   (source)
  • Old Bad Air is still around with his music and his dancing and his diversity, and I'll be up and around with mine.†   (source)
  • Okay, so diversity breeds knowledge.†   (source)
  • Rather, such experiences in the natural world taught me about the diversity of life that could be found in any microcosm.†   (source)
  • This is an oversimplification, but it holds a lot of truth, because there is more dialect diversity in the East than in the West.†   (source)
  • I believe the diversity will maintain.†   (source)
  • Allowing States to manufacture coins has created two problems: many expensive mints and a diversity of shape, size, and weight of coins.†   (source)
  • The This I Believe essay-writing exercise has been used in coffeehouses, adult literacy programs, writers' groups, hospices, hospitals, diversity training, houses of worship, retirement homes, and prisons.†   (source)
  • -diversity is the word.†   (source)
  • That may even produce more tolerance and appreciation of the linguistic diversity of this country, and less negative stereotyping of some dialects (such as New York or Southern) as "bad English."†   (source)
  • If no such cabal existed, the diversity of views and opinions, alone, would make the executive feeble and slow to act.†   (source)
  • Besides these important ethnic influences, California's leading-edge culture entails a tolerance for gender diversity that has been well ahead of most of America for at least two generations.†   (source)
  • As he said this, he steered the Curious Diversity off of the main road and onto an unpaved tributary that sprouted off to the west.†   (source)
  • Because of the danger, there was less diversity of opinions, a diversity that we normally hear on great national questions.†   (source)
  • The key to making super-diversity work, in other words, may have less to do with embracing it than ignoring it.†   (source)
  • Also, given the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the country, and ongoing immigration, we can expect our version of English to be continually modified by and to borrow from all the immigrant languages, as it has done throughout American history.†   (source)
  • They reached the end of the corridor, bursting through the doors and into the open, where Tummeler already had the Curious Diversity waiting, its engine running.†   (source)
  • Their findings underscored the cost of diversity: when people have little in common, they tend to avoid each other and to keep to themselves.†   (source)
  • In February of 2001, an educational program inside the federal government, called the Department of the Interior University, created a forum to highlight "career balance and diversity."†   (source)
  • They should also prove that a strong faction in a single State will be less likely to promote a specific class of electors than the representatives of thirteen States, spread over a vast region, with a diversity of local circumstances, prejudices, and interests.†   (source)
  • If the trends we have identified stay on their present paths, we can expect to see more diversity in regional speech patterns, new dialects becoming stronger (as in California), some disappearing (as in Ocracoke), and some continuing to diverge from standard American (as African American English).†   (source)
  • That leaves the mostly white, heterosexual guys-"the oppressor group," Cedric remembers Kim Sherman saying at the diversity workshop-who have nowhere to go.†   (source)
  • Scipio instituted diversity training, and established a policy that allowed any Clarkston resident who asked to ride along in police squad cars.†   (source)
  • Tummeler parked the Curious Diversity on a broad avenue at the intersection of streets below the towering edifice and motioned them to a bridge that led to two great applewood doors.†   (source)
  • As an African American student "who was cutting it," as he'd say-much less the protagonist of a book many of those in corporate diversity departments had embraced-he was a prize.†   (source)
  • So, we asked, will this new technology reinforce these stereotypes, that a black man and a white should each speak in a certain way, or could it be used to break them down, in the interest of promoting greater tolerance for diversity?†   (source)
  • Each of the companions thanked him in turn for his assistance and hospitality, save for Bug, who jumped when Samaranth winked at him, and John, who was too consumed with notetaking and translating to notice they were leaving until they were actually sitting in the Curious Diversity.†   (source)
  • Super-diversity in New York isn't viewed as a new, threatening force but rather as the normal state of things.†   (source)
  • The trios, which in past years were carefully chosen and mixed by instructors with an eye toward racial diversity, were self-selected this year by the students.†   (source)
  • The question of how to cope with cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity—that loaded concept—is a pressing one.†   (source)
  • Given all the regional diversity, and the great latitude in spoken language, what is fascinating is how passionately Americans care about being correct, with strong prejudices about "incorrect" regional features.†   (source)
  • "Why couldn't we, for instance, write a three-act play that deals with issues of diversity in the class we're observing," says a thin white boy, one of only three guys in the class.†   (source)
  • Because there are large communities of Hispanic and African American Californians, as well as Japanese and Chinese, and more recently Koreans and Vietnamese, California is one of the most racially mixed states in the country, and that diversity is bound to affect California English in the long run.†   (source)
  • The solution, he argued, was that the church remake itself as an explicitly international congregation that reflected the diversity outside its doors.†   (source)
  • Cedric, of course, knew that the assignment was supposed' to be a dispassionate analysis of diversity in the classroom, with examples and quotes and all that, and he tried writing such a paper.†   (source)
  • Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.†   (source)
  • The situation in Clarkston backed up Vertovec's argument that top-down efforts to promote the embrace of diversity were unlikely to succeed.†   (source)
  • Diversity becomes "no big deal."†   (source)
  • It is noted simply on the syllabus as "five pages, typed, double-spaced, on the topic of diversity in the classroom, using observations from each student's fieldwork.†   (source)
  • It's 7:30 on Friday night, and a seminal moment of Brown's right-minded indoctrination is about to commence: the all-important diversity orientation session.†   (source)
  • Or as the sociologist Lyn Lofland wrote in a book about city life, "Civility probably emerges more from indifference to diversity than from any appreciation of it."†   (source)
  • Most of them are what he expected-kids lifting observations from their journals, mostly mentioning exchanges between the teachers and their students, then weaving in some footnoted passages about diversity or tracking from the three books they've had to read thus far in the semester.†   (source)
  • IN 2005, A British researcher named Steven Vertovec coined a term to describe the incredible cultural complexity that had taken hold in places like Clarkston, Georgia: super-diversity.†   (source)
  • Indeed, when looking for a successful model for coping with—and benefiting from—Clarkston's diversity, one needed to look no further than the local supermarket, Thriftown.†   (source)
  • Rabbi Alan Flam, a university chaplain, head of Hillel (the student Jewish organization), and, for fourteen years, a facilitator of unit diversity meetings, welcomes the group as they settle into the lounge.†   (source)
  • Nelson looked askance at diversity training and opposed offering any "special treatment" for refugees, particularly in the arena of traffic violations.†   (source)
  • Now that everyone has been through one round of finals and a revealing month at home, it's time to make some choices about who your close friends will be and how you'll define yourself under Brown's implicit guidelines, as first laid out in the diversity workshop.†   (source)
  • But tonight's freshmen clearly have arrived knowing that the multiculturalist credo-embrace diversity so that every personal characteristic is cause for pride, not shame-has been criticized for institutionalizing divisiveness.†   (source)
  • In a paper he wrote about super-diversity in the United Kingdom, Vertovec put down his own thoughts about strategies for making super-diversity work, or at least, work better.†   (source)
  • Their eldest son, Shamsoun, a quietly intense young man with ink black skin and piercingly white eyes, said that the many ethnic groups in the area got along well when the family lived there, and he remembers how the diversity of the region was explained to him as a child.†   (source)
  • But there was another example of a less fearful approach toward Clarkston's diversity in even closer proximity to Mayor Swaney—just outside the doorway of his office in City Hall, in the warren occupied by Clarkston's new police chief, Tony J. Scipio.†   (source)
  • And yet, at Thriftown, at the Clarkston International Bible Church, in the police chief's office, and on the gravel-strewn field behind Indian Creek Elementary where the Fugees played, there were groups of people with a growing comfort toward—if not quite an indifference to—the extraordinary diversity that had come to Clarkston.†   (source)
  • All of this, all this yellow and blue, river and forest, entered Siddhartha for the first time through the eyes, was no longer a spell of Mara, was no longer the veil of Maya, was no longer a pointless and coincidental diversity of mere appearances, despicable to the deeply thinking Brahman, who scorns diversity, who seeks unity.†   (source)
  • There is no fundamental diversity between the two ideologies.†   (source)
  • Crops of unusual diversity grew in profusion and contiguity, with not an inch of ground untended.†   (source)
  • The flowing life which comes from the sense of order in chaos, or, if you prefer, from unity in diversity, as well as vice versa, which is the realization of the contradiction inherent in architecture, is here absolutely absent.†   (source)
  • Tarrou held his own better, but the entries in his diary show that while his curiosity had kept its depth, it had lost its diversity.†   (source)
  • "What a diversity of wants!" said Madeline.†   (source)
  • Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.†   (source)
  • This intelligence seemed to awaken great diversity of opinion.†   (source)
  • But they are concerned with the diversities of the world instead of with its unities: they are so irreligious that they exploit popular religion for professional purposes without delicacy or scruple (for example, Sydney Carton and the ghost in Hamlet!†   (source)
  • They swallowed her past as easily as they did Miss Anstell's, and with no apparent sense of any difference in the size of the mouthful: all they asked was that she should—in her own way, for they recognized a diversity of gifts—contribute as much to the general amusement as that graceful actress, whose talents, when off the stage, were of the most varied order.†   (source)
  • The roll of cedar level, the heave of craggy ridge, the dip of white-sage valley gave this side a diversity widely differing from the two steps of the Vermillion tableland.†   (source)
  • The little, interesting diversity of shapes had vanished from the scene; all that remained was a vast, dark matrix of sorrow and tragedy, the same in all the houses and the river-flats and the people and the birds; they were only shapen differently.†   (source)
  • To produce "Human development in its richest diversity" (to quote your Humboldt) is to my mind far above respectability.†   (source)
  • The new, more conscious houses are alike in their very attempts at diversity: the same bungalows, the same square houses of stucco or tapestry brick.†   (source)
  • Let us add a quantity of fine, amusing, and varied streets, like the Rue de Rivoli, and I do not despair of Paris presenting to the eye, when viewed from a balloon, that richness of line, that opulence of detail, that diversity of aspect, that grandiose something in the simple, and unexpected in the beautiful, which characterizes a checker-board.†   (source)
  • Uniformity prevails in the courses of public instruction as in everything else; diversity, as well as freedom, is disappearing day by day.†   (source)
  • The consequence of this desultory kind of priesthood was, as we have already intimated, a great diversity of opinion on the more abstruse points of faith.†   (source)
  • He made all manner of gestures while he spoke, as if in incidental imitation of some few of the great diversity of signals that he had never seen.†   (source)
  • Nancy quickly brought a bottle from a cupboard, in which there were many: which, to judge from the diversity of their appearance, were filled with several kinds of liquids.†   (source)
  • He was unpleasantly struck, too, by the excessive contempt for others that he observed in Speranski, and by the diversity of lines of argument he used to support his opinions.†   (source)
  • By the diversity of her humour, in turn mystical or mirthful, talkative, taciturn, passionate, careless, she awakened in him a thousand desires, called up instincts or memories.†   (source)
  • "Well—I don't know how," said I. "That's right," said Hammond cheerily; "you can easily understand that now we are freed from this folly it is obvious to us that by means of this very diversity the different strains of blood in the world can be serviceable and pleasant to each other, without in the least wanting to rob each other: we are all bent on the same enterprise, making the most of our lives.†   (source)
  • In their front were stretched those broad plains, which extend, with so little diversity of character, to the bases of the Rocky Mountains; and many long and dreary miles in their rear, foamed the swift and turbid waters of La Platte.†   (source)
  • But the diversity of the subjects I have had to treat is exceedingly great, and it will not be difficult to oppose an isolated fact to the body of facts which I quote, or an isolated idea to the body of ideas I put forth.†   (source)
  • But assume a consent and it shall presently be granted, since really and underneath their all external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.†   (source)
  • Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.†   (source)
  • As well sort them at once by size and livery: Vellum, tall copies, and the common calf Will hardly cover more diversity Than all your labels cunningly devised To class your unread authors.†   (source)
  • Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.†   (source)
  • The dangers which threaten the American Union do not originate in the diversity of interests or of opinions, but in the various characters and passions of the Americans.†   (source)
  • The room was spacious, and of very just proportions; but in its ornaments and furniture the same diversity of taste and imperfection of execution were to be observed as existed in the hall.†   (source)
  • Amid the uncertainties of the position, with the menace of serious danger giving a peculiarly threatening character to everything, amid this vortex of intrigue, egotism, conflict of views and feelings, and the diversity of race among these people—this eighth and largest party of those preoccupied with personal interests imparted great confusion and obscurity to the common task.†   (source)
  • I think it is rather to be regarded as an accident peculiar to their youth, and that it only breaks out at that period of transition when men have already snapped the former ties which bound them together, but are still amazingly different in origin, education, and manners; so that, having retained opinions, propensities and tastes of great diversity, nothing any longer prevents men from avowing them openly.†   (source)
  • The picture of human life in the market-place, though its general tint was the sad gray, brown, or black of the English emigrants, was yet enlivened by some diversity of hue.†   (source)
  • …there three series into their component parts, we shall find in the three eldest sisters, Hindoo architecture, Egyptian architecture, Romanesque architecture, the same symbol; that is to say, theocracy, caste, unity, dogma, myth, God: and for the three younger sisters, Phoenician architecture, Greek architecture, Gothic architecture, whatever, nevertheless, may be the diversity of form inherent in their nature, the same signification also; that is to say, liberty, the people, man.†   (source)
  • When the Roman emperors were at the height of their power, the different nations of the empire still preserved manners and customs of great diversity; although they were subject to the same monarch, most of the provinces were separately administered; they abounded in powerful and active municipalities; and although the whole government of the empire was centred in the hands of the emperor alone, and he always remained, upon occasions, the supreme arbiter in all matters, yet the details…†   (source)
  • It is natural that these and a countless and infinite quantity of other reasons, the number depending on the endless diversity of points of view, presented themselves to the men of that day; but to us, to posterity who view the thing that happened in all its magnitude and perceive its plain and terrible meaning, these causes seem insufficient.†   (source)
  • In great centralized nations the legislator is obliged to impart a character of uniformity to the laws which does not always suit the diversity of customs and of districts; as he takes no cognizance of special cases, he can only proceed upon general principles; and the population is obliged to conform to the exigencies of the legislation, since the legislation cannot adapt itself to the exigencies and the customs of the population, which is the cause of endless trouble and misery.†   (source)
  • "When we consider the great diversity of the human character, influenced as it is by education, by opportunity, and by the physical and moral conditions of the creature, my dear hearers," he earnestly concluded "it can excite no surprise that creeds so very different in their tendencies should grow out of a religion revealed, it is true, but whose revelations are obscured by the lapse of ages, and whose doctrines were, after the fashion of the countries in which they were first…†   (source)
  • …resemblance which exists between the political institutions of our ancestors, the Germans, and of the wandering tribes of North America; between the customs described by Tacitus, and those of which I have sometimes been a witness, I cannot help thinking that the same cause has brought about the same results in both hemispheres; and that in the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all the others are derived.†   (source)
  • When the equality of conditions is long established and complete, as all men entertain nearly the same notions and do nearly the same things, they do not require to agree or to copy from one another in order to speak or act in the same manner: their manners are constantly characterized by a number of lesser diversities, but not by any great differences.†   (source)
  • It is difficult to take an exact account of all the lands in a country which are under cultivation, with their natural or their acquired value; and it is still more impossible to estimate the entire personal property which is at the disposal of a nation, and which eludes the strictest analysis by the diversity and the number of shapes under which it may occur.†   (source)
  • For myself, I fully and conscientiously believe, that it is the will of the Almighty, that there should be diversity of religious opinions among us: It affords a larger field for our Christian kindness.†   (source)
  • How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?†   (source)
  • Making its cities, beginnings, events, diversities, wars, vocal in him,   (source)
    diversities = varieties
  • Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
    And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,   (source)
    diversity = different kinds (a variety)
  • The Diverging Streams—Thomas Jefferson, with his usual prevision, saw clearly more than a century ago that the American people, as they increased in numbers and in the diversity of their national interests and racial strains, would make changes in their mother tongue, as they had already made changes in the political institutions of their inheritance.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Kosmos Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing, Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover, Who holds duly his or her triune proportion of realism, spiritualism, and of the aesthetic or…†   (source)
  • These States are the amplest poem, Here is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of nations, Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, Here is what moves in magnificent masses careless of particulars, Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the soul loves, Here the flowing trains, here the crowds, equality, diversity, the soul loves.†   (source)
  • …and bay-coast on the main, the thirty thousand miles of river navigation, The seven millions of distinct families and the same number of dwellings— always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches, Always the free range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy; Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travelers, Kanada, the snows; Always these compact lands tied at the hips with the belt stringing the huge oval lakes; Always the West with strong…†   (source)
  • There are endless diversities in the opinions of men.†   (source)
  • This diversity of names may be reduced to foure generall heads.†   (source)
  • "That big dish that is smoking farther off," said Sancho, "seems to me to be an olla podrida, and out of the diversity of things in such ollas, I can't fail to light upon something tasty and good for me."†   (source)
  • And then, for your religion, profess none, But wonder at the diversity, of all: And, for your part, protest, were there no other But simply the laws o' the land, you could content you, Nic.†   (source)
  • The left-hand scene presented the view of a very fine park, composed of very unequal ground, and agreeably varied with all the diversity that hills, lawns, wood, and water, laid out with admirable taste, but owing less to art than to nature, could give.†   (source)
  • Then saw they therein such difficulty By way of reason, for to speak all plain, Because that there was such diversity Between their bothe lawes, that they sayn, They trowe* that no Christian prince would fain** *believe **willingly Wedden his child under our lawe sweet, That us was given by Mahound* our prophete.†   (source)
  • Which Object worketh on the Eyes, Eares, and other parts of mans body; and by diversity of working, produceth diversity of Apparences.†   (source)
  • Commercial enterprise will have much greater scope, from the diversity in the productions of different States.†   (source)
  • "You will pardon me," cries Jones; "but I have always imagined that there is in this very work you mention as great variety as in all the rest; for, besides the difference of inclination, customs and climates have, I am told, introduced the utmost diversity into human nature."†   (source)
  • And because the same things may enter into account for divers accidents; their names are (to shew that diversity) diversly wrested, and diversified.†   (source)
  • The consequence of this diversity would be that there could never happen a total dissolution or renovation of the body at one time.†   (source)
  • Here the curious reader may observe another diversity in the operations of grief: for as Mr Allworthy had been before silent, from the same cause which had made his sister vociferous; so did the present sight, which drew tears from the gentleman, put an entire stop to those of the lady; who first gave a violent scream, and presently after fell into a fit.†   (source)
  • The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.†   (source)
  • In the Kingdome of God, there may be three Persons independent, without breach of unity in God that Reigneth; but where men Reigne, that be subject to diversity of opinions, it cannot be so.†   (source)
  • The Kingdome of God was yet to come, in a new world; so that there could be no authority to compell in any Church, till the Common-wealth had embraced the Christian Faith; and consequently no diversity of Authority, though there were diversity of Employments.†   (source)
  • This diversity of sentiment between a majority of the people, and the individuals who have the greatest credit in their councils, is exemplified in some of the States at the present moment, on the present question.†   (source)
  • If no such cabal should exist, the mere diversity of views and opinions would alone be sufficient to tincture the exercise of the executive authority with a spirit of habitual feebleness and dilatoriness.†   (source)
  • For the understanding whereof, we may consider, that there is in mens aptnesse to Society; a diversity of Nature, rising from their diversity of Affections; not unlike to that we see in stones brought together for building of an Aedifice.†   (source)
  • There is sufficient diversity in the state of property, in the genius, manners, and habits of the people of the different parts of the Union, to occasion a material diversity of disposition in their representatives towards the different ranks and conditions in society.†   (source)
  • For though the nature of that we conceive, be the same; yet the diversity of our reception of it, in respect of different constitutions of body, and prejudices of opinion, gives everything a tincture of our different passions.†   (source)
  • A single well-directed man, by a single understanding, cannot be distracted and warped by that diversity of views, feelings, and interests, which frequently distract and warp the resolutions of a collective body.†   (source)
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