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Quotes About Differences

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.
~ Noam Chomsky
Discrimination is training in not identifying or empathizing with someone because they are different in some way, in believing the differences mean everything and common humanity nothing.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Shackleton sice na cestách do vnitrozemí ledového kontinentu neohrožoval Scottovu autoritu, ale jejich charaktery jsou pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozdílné.
~ Reinhold Messner
Certainly, Muhammad understood that there were distinct theological differences between Islam and the other Peoples of the Book. But he saw these differences as part of the divine plan of God, who could have created a single Ummah if he had wanted to but instead preferred that "every Ummah have its own Messenger" (10:47).
~ Reza Aslan
Gli animali non si comportano come gli uomini. Se devono battersi, si battono. Se devono uccidere, uccidono. Ma non usano la loro intelligenza per trovar la maniera di arrecar danni alle altre creature, di avvelenar loro la vita. Essi hanno dignità, hanno animalità.
~ Richard Adams
In that case there must have been genes controlling variation in caddis houses, for selection cannot produce adaptations unless there are hereditary differences among which to select.
~ Richard Dawkins
the use of tests endured and grew because society's largest institutions—schools, military forces, industries, governments—depend significantly on measurable individual differences.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
because economic success in life depends in part on the talents measured by IQ tests, and because social standing depends in part on economic success, it follows that social standing is bound to be based to some extent on inherited differences.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.
~ Julian Barnes
And secondly, reducing the diversity between people didn't result in harmony within. The narcissism of small differences ensured this.
~ Julian Barnes
There are as many preferences as there are men.
~ Horace
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart;Girls aren't like that.
~ Kingsley Amis
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
~ Alice Walker
But men and women, getting along, it's a joke. We have completely different brains, it's a completely different thing.
~ Christina Applegate
I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.
~ Laura Ingraham
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
~ Thomas Aquinas
What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I think if a girl who liked 'Party Down' found out that her boyfriend liked 'Two and a Half Men,' she would break up with him.
~ Lizzy Caplan
The rich are different from us.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
~ Robert Breault
I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!
~ Liane Moriarty
I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].
~ Philip Glass
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.
~ Murray Bookchin
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
~ Malcolm Boyd