#dive

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#backgrounds #country #different #different backgrounds #diversity

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#been #come #compel #conflict #divested

The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#after #clinton #clinton administration #committee #designs

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#am #america #common #diverse #earth

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#about #among #applying #catholics #death

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. ↗

— George Berkeley

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