Plurality Quotes
42 quotes by 32 authors
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
— Irving Babbitt
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's…
— Conrad Black
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The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South…
— George Washington
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Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar,…
— Hannah Arendt
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In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,…
— Wendell Berry
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Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
— William of Ockham
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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
— William of Ockham
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,…
— Octavio Paz
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God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
— Octavio Paz
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The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away...
— Heber C. Kimball
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You might as well deny 'Mormonism,' and turn away from it, as to oppose the plurality of wives.
— Heber C. Kimball
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The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
— Elon Musk
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they…
— Ma Jian
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Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates…
— Valentin Tomberg
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Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE…
— Valentin Tomberg
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Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not…
— Gore Vidal
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