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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. -- George Eliot
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. -- Toni Morrison
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -- George Washington
February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. -- Xavier Becerra
There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else. -- Danica McKellar
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats. -- Jim Hightower
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. -- A. B. Yehoshua
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. -- Iris Chang
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. -- Eric Cantona
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. -- Desmond Tutu
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ... -- Pearl S. Buck
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely. -- Alan Turing
All three of our major religions in Britain ~ Christianity, Islam and Judaism - have a hateful idea at the very core. That idea is Exclusion: the "othering," if you like, of the unredeemed. -- Matthew Parris
There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion. -- Bill Pullman
Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things. -- Lou Reed
Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains. -- Tia Carrere
If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. -- Jessica Lange
We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred. -- Alvaro Uribe
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary -- Dante Alighieri
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself. -- Henry David Thoreau
Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions. -- Nick Rahall
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all. -- Claudio Hummes
It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people. -- Charles Hodge
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace. -- Fredrik Bajer
I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. -- Tom Glazer
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied. -- Andrew Vachss
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights -- Hideki Tojo
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights. -- Hideki Tojo
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects? -- James Madison
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover. -- Lisa Randall
The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date. -- Adora Svitak
People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. -- Tariq Ramadan
While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace. -- Mariella Frostrup
You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day. I'm a momma's boy. We all are. So there's no exclusion in this family. You're part of it. We embrace you and lift you up. -- Emilio Estevez
In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. -- Evo Morales
Throughout the industrial era, economists considered manufactured capital - money, factories, etc. - the principal factor in industrial production, and perceived natural capital as a marginal contributor. The exclusion of natural capital from balance sheets was an understandable omission. There was so much of it, it didn't seem worth counting. -- Paul Hawken
For better or worse, I'm interested in just about everything: every different type of music I can imagine. I can never see a reason to choose just one type of music at the exclusion of everything else. Different types of music are capable of being rewarding in different kinds of ways. -- Moby
Religion is a complex and often contradictory force in our world. It fosters hope and comfort but also doubt and guilt. It creates both community and exclusion. It brings societies together around shared belief and tears them apart through war. However, what unites the faithful, whatever their religion, is the unshakeable force of generosity. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness. -- Harvey Fierstein
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects. -- Neil Simon
The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth... -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Elegance thrives on exclusion. -- Mason Cooley
Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary. -- Carl Andre
Jesus is all about inclusion not exclusion. -- Robert Hood
The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. -- Henry Jacobsen
There is no room for exclusion in family...only love. -- Wes Fesler
Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody. -- Carlos Mencia
Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down, -- George H. W. Bush
Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. -- Warren Farrell
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. -- Donna J. Haraway
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. -- Alberto Manguel
Why do we want and need the validation of those who celebrate our exclusion? -- Carlos Wallace
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. -- Georges Canguilhem
Peace cannot be built on exclusion. That has been the price of the past 30 years. -- Gerry Adams
I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. -- Sara Gruen
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism. -- Maajid Nawaz
To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary. -- Moby
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. -- Francis Parkman
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion. -- Timothy Keller
Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most -- Ralph Fiennes
Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him. -- James MacDonald
I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq. -- Muqtada al Sadr
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. -- Tacitus
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating. -- Harvey Cox
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. -- Pope Francis
The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion. -- Keith Ellison
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else. -- Swami Vivekananda
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it. -- Maria Montessori
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none. -- Ken Danby
Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment. -- Shekhar Kapur
Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings. -- Bryant McGill
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. -- Steven Pressfield
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves. -- Thomas Paine
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many. -- Anita Roddick
Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. -- Jessica Lange
It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference. -- Meera Menon
The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one? -- Swami Vivekananda
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Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too. -- Noreena Hertz
The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science. -- Abraham Maslow
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
I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys. -- Annie Lennox
Nothing is as unique as sex in nature; it is full of enjoyment, pleasure and happiness. There is no discrimination, no exclusion, no inequality and no racism. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to the exclusion of everything else. -- Frederick Lenz
The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now. -- Gregg Easterbrook
As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime. -- Joan Nestle
Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence. -- Pope Francis
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business. -- Seneca the Younger
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own. -- Anthony Marra
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality. -- E. B. White
In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged. -- Pope Francis
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the exclusion of both these extremes, the Truth-Finder has discovered a middle course. -- Gautama Buddha
Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice, dishonesty, marginalization and exclusion in the academic world. -- Noam Chomsky
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, for the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. -- Toni Morrison
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? -- Albert Claude
There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else. -- Truman Capote
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms. -- William Bennett
Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death. -- Bryant McGill
Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion. -- Keith Ellison
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires. -- Baroness Orczy
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia. -- Jack Schwartz
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan. -- Catharine MacKinnon

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