The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Topic: Diversity, Thinking
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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.
