Unifying Quotes - Page 5

• We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Empathy, Needs

  "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.

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• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Party, Iran

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.

  Michael Barone

  Government, Law, Obamacare

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• I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

  Cat Stevens

  Spiritual, Reality, Violence

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Men, Mankind, Reach Out

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• The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Simple, Feet

  Sue Monk Kidd (1987). “God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Mets, Communicators

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• The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Light, Mind

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• Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.

  Ernest Istook

  Sea, America, Confusion

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• Christ's divinity accounts for His exaltation to the right hand of God, justifies the worship of angels and the confidence of mankind. It makes clear His right to the throne of the universe, and enables the mind to understand why He is exalted in providence, in grace, and in judgment. It is the unifying truth that harmonizes all other teachings of Christianity, and renders the entire system symmetrical and complete.

  George C. Lorimer

  Teaching, Angel, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 57), 1895.

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• The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding the camera and you're adding the idea of adaptation. So the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material that you love and yet not be afraid to step outside of it and introduce elements into it that make it exist in a satisfying, exciting way cinematically.

  Marc E. Platt

  Moving, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Germany, Elements, Reconstruction

  "Famous Trials: Cases that Made History". Book by Frank McLynn, p. 104, 1995.

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• The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

  Ted Nelson

  Vision, Matter, Technicalities

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• White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

  Mark Tobey

  Ideas, White, Movement

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• The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Religious, People, Sides

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• My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Government, Focus, Liberty

  "Domain games: Internet leaves the U.S. nest" by Elinor Mills, cnn.com. October 16, 1998.

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• You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Truth Is, Behinds, Vigilant

  "Thought for the day" column on Sathya Sai International Organisation site, October 5, 2008.

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• The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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• Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Two, Half

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• Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

  Richard Leakey

  Nature, Culture, World

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• I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

  Bill Ayers

  Wish, Wiser, Principled

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• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  Gavyn Davies

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Today

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• T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

  Adam Nicolson

  Kings, Political, Purpose

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• In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

  Graca Machel

  Teamwork, Children, Support

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