Quotes About Divergence

#1. How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious ... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

Paul Collier

#2. Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.

Harriet Martineau

#3. The importance of minority does not reside in the fact of its relative exclusion from the majority but in the political potential of its divergence from the norm.

Paul Patton

#4. There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

J. William Fulbright

#5. There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

Ian Bremmer

#6. It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable ... There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

E. Haldeman-Julius

#7. This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.

Michael David Lukas

#8. Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#9. The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse ... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of distinct groups to exist more or less in harmony, despite great divergence in beliefs and practices ...

Margot Adler

#10. Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

Charles Darwin

#11. Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms.

George Gaylord Simpson

#12. There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.

Astra Taylor

#13. I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.

Mario Monti

#14. In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

Michio Kaku

#15. Insularity plus time yields divergence.

Quammen, David

#16. There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

John Rawls

#17. The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Emma Goldman

#18. You have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance.

Bashar Al-Assad

#19. There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

George Soros

#20. Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick a blanket This is an example of what's called a divergence test

Malcolm Gladwell

#21. the cause of Divergence and come out and help you, that was . . ." "'Divergent

Veronica Roth

#22. Pomeranz, K. (2000) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Jane Pollard

#23. I think Little Nicky was a divergence from the films Adam Sandler was used to doing, and he was taking a risk. I admire him for doing that.

Kevin Nealon

#24. The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

Peter R. Grant

#25. Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Ibrahim Babangida

#26. As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

Arthur Keith

#27. He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

Dawn Jayne

#28. This City is what it is because are citizens are what they are " -Plato

Red Wemette

#29. We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#30. My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

Eve Ensler

#31. I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

Roger Moore

#32. I like honesty more than my ego does.

Adam Santo

#33. Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. Improvising political dialogue is not easy.

James Nesbitt

#35. The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.

Robert A. Heinlein

#36. I steal, Winkle said, with a smile that said I'm joking and a glint in his eye that said I'm not.

Orson Scott Card

#37. My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#38. Freedom is never free.

Abu Zubair

#39. The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness ... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.

Richard Carlson

#40. Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

Jerry B. Jenkins