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Quotes About Differences

There is continuity between humans and other animals in their emotional lives; there are transitional stages among species, not large gaps; and the differences among many animals are differences in degree rather than in kind
~ Charles Darwin
large disparities in school performances among racial or ethnic groups (1) are unusual and suspicious, and (2) reflect differences in the way those groups are treated by the schools and/or the society. These
~ Thomas Sowell
There were irreconcilable differences among the congregations in town, but members from all of them merged solidly on the necessity of this action: Do what you have to. Neither the Convent nor the women in it can continue.
~ Toni Morrison
For [Beth] Davis, Fitzgerald's [Louisiana] story carried another, broader message for Americans. 'If veterans could come together so soon after the War and forgive and forget, then surely we can overcome our differences,' she said. 'Old wounds were healed here, old barriers overcome. Seems like we should be able to do the same.
~ Tony Horwitz
I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
~ Carol Gilligan
misunderstandings, conflicts, personality differences, and even angry quarrels are not the assassins of love; self-justification is.
~ Carol Tavris
sensitive lover." From our standpoint, therefore, misunderstandings, conflicts, personality differences, and even angry quarrels are not the assassins of love; self-justification is.
~ Carol Tavris
The downside is that stereotypes flatten out differences within the category we are looking at and exaggerate differences between categories.
~ Carol Tavris
Webster's dislike of words that weren't pronounced the way they looked led him to decree that words such as centre and theatre should be spelled center and theater; he also dropped the silent u from words such as colour, favour and honour. In fact, Webster was single-handedly responsible for most of the differences between British and American spelling that survive to this day.
~ Caroline Taggart
Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles.
~ George Mikes
Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinction that truly mattered.
~ George R.R. Martin
There never were two opinions alike in all the world, no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls would never dream of doing - like showering.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
~ Douglas Jerrold
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid?
~ J. M. Coetzee
And he was not surprised that the mahmen was the one who'd woman'd up. After however many years in homicide, he had learned about the differences between the sexes. Men were physically stronger, true. But the women? They were the warriors. As much as those males who had come with her would have run into a burning building to save her, not one of them was strong enough to take her place for this heartbreaking duty. Because they couldn't handle it. "All
~ J.R. Ward
For any actor, when you're playing twin brothers, you have to be able to find the similarities between them as well as creating a difference between the two characters. If they just looked the same, what would the point of that be?
~ Efren Ramirez
When you're twins, everyone's always looking for differences. The ones they see are usually wrong.
~ Jason McCourty
Our first thought growing up was that we want to be together always so we didn't want to play the same position. You see a lot of twins play the same position because they are so alike. That was a big thing for us that we taught ourselves, and luckily it ended up paying off.
~ Markieff Morris
Brains come in different types and they're all normal.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more interested in systems and females seem to be more interested in people and particularly people's emotions.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.
~ Heather Wilson