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The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regard...

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Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect a...

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such...

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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences...

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The machine itself receives some of the same feelings. With over 27,000 on it it's getting to be som...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

t is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multit...

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It is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...

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Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnor...

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Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or ...

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She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not a...

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Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between ...

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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limi...

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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes wil...

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to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal pr...

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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...

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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o...

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Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those ...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

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Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each ...

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Audre LordeI Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...

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Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those diff...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

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Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and stranger...

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We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word ...

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...this world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one anoth...

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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, i...

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The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly ...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and en...

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Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begi...

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The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of y...

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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differen...

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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places e...

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No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the sa...

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The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different conti...

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My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another p...

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It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, ...

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What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to ...

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We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, yo...

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I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the w...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...

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I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Look. I know what I believe. It's in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convin...

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Mitch AlbomHave a Little Faith: a True Story

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as a...

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Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything...

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Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have ab...

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