Differences Quotes
4900 quotes by 3259 authors
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right.…
— June Jordan
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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex…
— Amiri Baraka
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Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.
— Roger Rosenblatt
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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid…
— Neal Stephenson
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same…
— Mae Jemison
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The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to…
— Joseph Sobran
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
— C.S. Lewis
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,…
— Octavio Paz
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The difference between congressmen and drunken sailors is that drunken sailors are spending their own money.
— Tom Feeney
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There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views.…
— Bryan Caplan
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Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself,…
— Shulamith Firestone
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As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which…
— Barack Obama
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when…
— Vita Sackville-West
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Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
— Julia Ward Howe
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You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever it…
— Joseph J. Romm
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And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not…
— Daniel Barenboim
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In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in…
— Frederic Rzewski
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The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people who believe essentially…
— Joe Lieberman
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