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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
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"Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue."

Mind Differences Views
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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him."

Men Lying Differences
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Van Morrison Singer-Songwriter
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"There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me."

People Differences Lyric Poetry
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Salvador Dali Artist, Surrealist
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

Differences Mad Spouse
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion."

Men Differences Forgiving
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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
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"Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth."

Religious Differences Diversity
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Thomas A. Edison Inventor
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"In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again."

Powerful Differences Common Sense
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Thomas Young Physicist
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"Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each."

Two Science Differences
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Richard Bach Author
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"We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it."

People Differences Practice
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring"

Beautiful Differences Sky
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