#divers

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#diversity #divisiveness #food #politics #food

Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. "Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do! Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years" "We'll fix that" Kelsier promised. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#dockson #dox #foolhardy #funny #getting-boring

Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity. ↗

— Francis Maude

#diversity #our #party #uniformity

Society is unity in diversity. ↗

— George H. Mead

#society #unity

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all. ↗

— Evo Morales

#diversity #equal #equal rights #new #republic

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #around #backgrounds #common #common language

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#america #around #backgrounds #bilingual #come

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#celebrates #common #common ground #diversity #ground

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things. ↗

— Joan Jett

#before #diverse #i #music #really

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#basic #channels #china #committed #diversify