Cohesion Quotes

• Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

  Dan Savage

  Christmas, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?

  Plato

  Political, Unity, Splits

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

  Edward Luttwak

  Mass

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• Cohesion means respectful diversity, which is about much more than the weak-kneed tolerance.

  Mal Fletcher

  Mean, Diversity, Tolerance

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• Giving triggers social cohesion. It's also the basis for an economy not based on money.

  Lily Cole

  Giving, Economy, Social

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

  Georges Bataille

  Love, Taken, Reality

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.179, U of Minnesota Press

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• Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Patriotic, Blessing

  Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, January 14, 1981.

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• I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

  Sara Paretsky

  Giving, Church, Trying

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• We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

  Douglas Bader

  Flying, Enemy, Coast

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

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• Whether we live together in confidence and cohesion; with more faith and pride in ourselves and less self-doubt and hesitation; strong in the conviction that the destiny of Canada is to unite, not divide; sharing in cooperation, not in separation or in conflict; respecting our past and welcoming our future.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Strong, Pride, Past

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• Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Loss, Men

  W. S. F. Pickering, Emile Durkheim (2011). “Durkheim on Religion: A Selection of Readings with Bibliographies and Introductory Remarks”, p.55, Casemate Publishers

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• What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

  John Masefield

  Life, Work, Cells

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, New Beginnings, Simple

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.

  A. C. Cuza

  Blood, Class, Soul

  "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

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• In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Europe, America

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4224, Delphi Classics

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• The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Important, Firsts

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Independence, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Black And White, Drawing, Consistency

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tolerance, Degrees, Maintaining

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Saint Joan”, p.37, Read Books Ltd

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• I was not a hard-liner against nuclear, because I viewed that as perhaps the only way we might keep the lights on another 25 years. But lately I am on board with Nicole Foss's argument that we will not have the capital or even the social cohesion to build anymore nuke plants.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Light, Years, Boards

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto.

  Eric Nicol

  Hate, Years, Toronto

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