it takes all kinds to make a world

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谚语
  1. Diversity is essential: the world would be incomplete if everyone were alike; an expression of surprise at a person or people's eccentricity. idiomatic
    — He irons his clothes how?! That's crazy! Well, I guess it takes all kinds to make a world.

词形变化

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词源

Calque of Spanish de todos ha de haber en el mundo (“There must be of all [types] in the world”), Miguel de Cervantes,
El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Capítulo VI, 1615 (Don Quixote, Volume 2, Chapter VI); translated 1620, Shelton, as "In the world there must surely be of all sorts." and appeared in various forms thereafter.
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