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Quotes About Differences

How we ever came from the same parents is a wonder. Nothing suits you more than a crowd, and nothing suits me less.
~ Nora Roberts
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
~ Virginia Woolf
To feel anything strongly was to create an abyss between oneself and others who feel strongly perhaps but differently.
~ Virginia Woolf
for she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa.
~ Virginia Woolf
No debería la educación buscar y fortalecer más bien las diferencias que no los puntos de semejanza? Porque ya nos parecemos demasiado, y si un explorador volviera con la noticia de otros sexos atisbando por entre las ramas de otros árboles bajo otros cielos, nada podría ser más útil a la Humanidad
~ Virginia Woolf
Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
differences in health that are not only avoidable and unnecessary but in addition unjust and unfair.
~ Larry Cohen
Burning in the ardor of their new faith to convert the pagan masses, the early fathers of the Christian Church strove to emphasize the differences between their religion and its theological predecessor by forcing upon the Jews a kind of spiritual apartheid. The Emperor Theodosius II gave those aspirations legal force in his code, condemning Judaism and, for the first time, legally branding the Jews a people apart.
~ Larry Collins
If Jesus put Simon the Zealot (an insurrectionist who hated the Roman occupiers) on the same team as Matthew the tax collector (a collaborator with the Romans) and then made them room together, I'm not sure why we can't have some strong differences on the hot-button issues of our day and still march together under the banner of unity.
~ Larry Osborne
The claims that the OT God had now sent forth Jesus as the self-revelation that surpassed all previous ones (including specifically the Torah), that this God thereby had widened the circle of the elect to include all nations, and that a right relationship with this God and a full participation in the elect now rested upon how one responded to Jesus, these all amounted to significant differences with the Jewish religious tradition. In
~ Larry W. Hurtado
Not only the difference between Coke and Pepsi, but Wise potato chips and Utz, Little Debbie's and Hostess. Duron and the Hechinger store brand of spray paint.
~ Laura Lippman
But Jess had outgrown that. And anyway, the twins weren't so exactly alike. Eddie was quiet and serious. Sam never shut up and he had a fearless streak that sometimes got all three of them into big trouble.
~ Lauren Tarshis
We should] treat as impeachable those offenses, and only those, that a reasonable man might anticipate would be thought abusive and wrong, without references to partisan politics or differences of opinion on policy.
~ Laurence H. Tribe
Neurodiversity? Indeed. According to The New York Times: "As psychiatrists and neurologists uncover an ever-wider variety of brain wiring," a new kind of disability movement, calling for an acceptance of neurodiversity, has been born. Proponents of neurodiversity argue that "brain differences, like body differences, should be embraced," and appeal for a neurologically tolerant society.76
~ Charles Barber
You shoulda married someone, a whole lot more like you-- drink coffee in the little cafes, and you could go out shopping too. I shoulda married someone, who likes to camp and fish, and make love for two days straight, And you say, "don't you wish". You drive me crazy, with all the things you do and do not do. Umm, I love you so much, I'm gonna drive you crazy too.
~ Greg Brown
Just remember, this is a collaborative effort. We don't have time for creative differences or outbreaks of artistic integrity.
~ Greg Cox
All people are born alike — except Republicans and Democrats.
~ Groucho Marx
All people are born alike... except Republicans and Democrats.
~ Groucho Marx
LOVE is ... wanting to experience things together, learning from your differences, to build future together.
~ Guillaume Musso
The real differences between languages, he argued, are not in what a language is able to express but rather in "what it encourages and stimulates its speakers to do from its own inner force.
~ Guy Deutscher
The Empire was quickly becoming the other , a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave off only if they united, all differences set aside. It was almost heartening to witness the dawn of hope, as cautious and fragile as it was.
~ James Luceno
They come in all shapes and sizes, all races and creeds and genders. That's the scariest thing of all
~ James Patterson
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.
~ Virginia Postrel