Homogenizes Quotes & Sayings

But while compliant raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself
traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. — Sheryl Sandberg

You have reached the blind alley of the treason you committed when you agreed that you had no right to exist. Once, you believed it was "only a compromise": you conceded it was evil to live for yourself, but moral to live for the sake of your children. Then you conceded that it was selfish to live for your children, but moral to live for your community. Then you conceded that it was selfish to live for your community, but moral to live for your country. Now, you are letting this greatest of countries be devoured by any scum from any corner of the earth, while you concede that it is selfish to live for your country and that your moral duty is to live for the globe. — Ayn Rand

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. — Fareed Zakaria

The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience. — Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an act of ethnocentric violence by uprooting the text from the language and culture that gave it life. Translating into current, standard English at once conceals that violence and homogenizes foreign cultures, — Lawrence Venuti

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. — Robert A. Heinlein

So are you planning on stealing all our guns, or do you think maybe you only need one per hand? - Ahmed — Alwyn Hamilton

The unavoidable conclusion that, precisely because God and creation are ontologically distinct in the manner of the absolute and the contingent, they are morally indiscerptible.
(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17) — David Bentley Hart

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves. — James A. Michener

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Story, in other words, continues to fulfill its ancient function of binding society by reinforcing a set of common values and strengthening the ties of common culture. Story enculturates the youth. It defines the people. It tells us what is laudable and what is contemptible. It subtly and constantly encourages us to be decent instead of decadent. Story is the grease and glue of society: by encouraging us to behave well, story reduces social friction while uniting people around common values. Story homogenizes us; it makes us one. This is part of what Marshall McLuhan had in mind with his idea of the global village. Technology has saturated widely dispersed people with the same media and made them into citizens of a village that spans the world. — Jonathan Gottschall

I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting! — Christy Hall

It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of chest pain that radiates down the left arm. Women often have symptoms including shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain. A gender-neutral approach left many women under-diagnosed and under-treated and as a result many women died needlessly. — Jed Diamond

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties. — Elon Musk

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual. — Bobby Flay

Find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor — Jimmy Buffett

The saddest moment of my adolescence was when I suddenly realized that my girlfriend did not have a boyfriend. — Ernest Kinnie