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To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything. -- Fernando Pessoa
To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above. -- Fernando Pessoa
Love and friendship exclude each other. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. -- Joel Osteen
You can't call yourself a university and exclude whole ethnic groups. -- Bobby Seale
Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. -- David Wilmot
I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. -- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises. -- Bill Keller
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin. -- Rand Paul
To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced. -- William James
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. -- Harold Bloom
We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! -- Nick Hornby
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. -- Elihu Root
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. -- Francis of Assisi
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people. -- Miguel Syjuco
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there. -- Jay Griffiths
In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively. -- Sharon Salzberg
Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity. -- Kerry Healey
A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. -- Alexandra Kerry
Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women. -- Gary Gygax
The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. -- Jon Meacham
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects. -- Charles Platt
I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. -- Christopher Hitchens
Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations. -- Adam McKay
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes. -- Jack Canfield
Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty. -- Samuel Johnson
You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people. -- Derek Sivers
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. -- William Cowper
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude. -- Susan Sontag
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes. -- Mason Cooley
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house. -- Katharine Tynan
To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. -- Dallas Willard
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. -- Samuel Johnson
From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.] -- Martial
A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness. -- Rebecca West
My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change. -- Julia Serano
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. -- Samuel Richardson
I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out. -- Riccardo Tisci
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason. -- Blaise Pascal
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. -- Bill Bright
There can be no scientific dispute with respect to faith, for science and faith exclude one another. -- Rudolf Virchow
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. -- e. e. cummings
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. -- William James
Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce. -- Jeffrey Tucker
When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? -- Antonin Scalia
Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else. -- Don Lemon
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners. -- Miroslav Volf
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. -- Franz Kafka
Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses. -- Ernst Mach
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence. -- Alexander Hamilton
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. -- Oliver Ellsworth
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us -- Jean Vanier
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification -- Roger Scruton
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. -- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people. -- Diana Butler Bass
You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices. -- Ralph Nader
My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence. -- Vano Merabishvili
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. -- Harold Bloom
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds. -- Erich Fromm
Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
Philosophers sometimes also use 'reductionist' more strictly, to mean 'type-identities' between mental and physical categories, and to exclude 'non-reductive physicalisms' like metaphysical functionalism. -- David Papineau
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves. -- John Clute
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim -- Vincent de Paul
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. -- Rand Paul
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me. -- Martha Ronk
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. -- Seneca the Younger
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence. -- Nicholas Murray Butler
Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. -- Richard Perle
Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves. -- Jerry A. Coyne
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
You do not invite experience with your 'yes' and exclude it with your 'no'. There is no exclusion in this attraction-based Universe. Your focus in the invitation. -- Esther Hicks
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself -- C. S. Lewis
But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died. -- Kathe Kollwitz
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Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it. -- John Owen
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone. -- Jack Kingston
Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands. -- Michelle Rodriguez
Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle. -- John Darnielle
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour. -- Sophie Swetchine
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma. -- Luc de Clapiers
There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people. -- Ralph Nader
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others. -- Brian Eno
Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it. -- Julien Offray de La Mettrie
There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made. -- Jill Stein
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated. -- Johnnetta B. Cole
God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise. -- Ramana Maharshi
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it. -- Byron Katie
I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur. -- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. -- Jane Jacobs
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs. -- Salman Rushdie
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision. -- Abraham Lincoln
What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone. -- Whoopi Goldberg
When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering. -- Sam Hamill
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Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham. -- Dalai Lama
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole. -- John Holdren
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives. -- Rebecca Solnit

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