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• The Beauty of the Universe consists not only of unity in variety but also of variety in unity.
  -- Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose...
• There cannot be diversity in unity. -- Deng Ming-Dao
• I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both.
  Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete....
• Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iv, Sc. 3...
• The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno, lxviii...
• It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his natio
  hat the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole....
• Good at a fight, but better at a play; Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- On a Cast of Sheridan's Hand...
• NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.
  As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama....