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Uniformity and Evolution are one. -- Charles Lapworth
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way. -- Vandana Shiva
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to. -- George Washington
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein. -- C.D. Wright
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology. -- Dervla Murphy
God requireth not a uniformity of religion. -- Roger Williams
Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity. -- Francis Maude
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. -- Jean Paul
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. -- Noam Chomsky
The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product. -- Peter Davison
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. -- Francis Bacon
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. -- George William Russell
I'm not Amish, but I grew up in that same area of Pennsylvania and became very attracted to the inherent strictness and uniformity of that community. -- Thom Browne
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. -- Louis D. Brandeis
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper. -- E. M. Forster
The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. -- William Falconer
You're going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably better than most of the issues across browsers. -- Sundar Pichai
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. -- Lewis Thomas
With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it's a vigilante military, the state is in disarray, and there is no reference point for authenticity, so it's just weapons work and circumstantial fighting. -- Jai Courtney
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free. -- Walter Crane
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. -- James Madison
What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture. -- Neneh Cherry
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. -- Tryon Edwards
A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection. -- Alice Waters
Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line. -- Jeremy Irons
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. -- David A. Bednar
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. -- David Icke
Unity has never meant uniformity. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Equivalence signifies uniformity and thus immobility. -- Viktor Schauberger
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. -- Mary Parker Follett
boredom was born on a day of uniformity. -- Muriel Barbery
In differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. -- Louis D. Brandeis
We're all getting lashed to the great wheel of uniformity. -- Robert James Waller
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. -- John F. Kennedy
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity -- Joseph Goebbels
The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity. -- Tariq Ramadan
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes. -- Boris Sidis
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. -- George Santayana
to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life. -- Jan Struther
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold. -- John Ruskin
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. -- Emma Goldman
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. -- Nick Cohen
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state. -- Roger Williams
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. -- Emma Goldman
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. -- John Perry Barlow
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity -- Christopher Hitchens
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz
We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity. -- Roger Williams
If you have unity without variety, you have uniformity and that's boring. If you have variety without unity, you have anarchy. -- Skip Heitzig
The Bible provides unity without imposing uniformity, without prohibiting change; it is a standing invitation to thinking and to take responsibilities. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. -- Mary Parker Follett
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity. -- Luc de Clapiers
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application. -- Adolf Hitler
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ... -- Edith Sitwell
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. -- Tom Peters
I think the fashion industry, as a result of globalization, has undergone a uniformity. I'm not saying that's good or that's bad but that is my observation. -- Patricia Field
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been; a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage. -- William Ralph Inge
The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means. -- Henry Fuseli
A first-person voice helps to ensure the uniformity and cohesiveness of the narrative; it gathers unto itself incidents and characters in its unstoppable progress toward the story's end. -- Norman Lock
In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth -- Yoshida Kenko
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation. -- Terence McKenna
...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups. -- Eduardo Galeano
An uniformity of weights and measures, arranged upon mathematical principles, would be a benefit to the whole commercial world, if it were wise enough to adopt such an expedient. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn. -- Seymour Papert
If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. -- Confucius
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge. -- Roger Scruton
All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc
All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout. -- Learned Hand
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect. -- Ann Radcliffe
Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb. -- George Horace Lorimer
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. -- Roger Williams
In Europe, radio stations are owned by a variety of different entities, so there is less uniformity on radio programming and more opportunity for artists to get radio play and break overseas. -- Wendy Starland
Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. -- Eric Hoffer
Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law, into some realm which is that of the mind alone. -- Loren Eiseley
...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety. -- Joan Anderson
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled -- Lewis Thomas
The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'. -- James C. Scott
Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc. -- Thomas Jefferson

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