Differing Quotes
75 quotes by 70 authors
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In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and…
— Ben Mezrich
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There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.
— Samuel Florman
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Hawaii is a special place because we have a very diverse population there, who are very respectful and tolerant of those who have differing opinions…
— Tulsi Gabbard
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The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make…
— Burton Silverman
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Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger…
— James McGreevey
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Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
— David Suzuki
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There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open…
— Elliot Perlman
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Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel…
— Barry Lopez
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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is…
— Fred Rogers
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With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to…
— Charles Dickens
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Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates. Louie and Phil's hope displaced their…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction…
— C.S. Lewis
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