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“Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.”

Men Firsts Facts Understanding Differences Animal Latter

Author:Theophrastus

“I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.”

I Can Lying Differences

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.”

Want Country Night Song Father Differences Drunk Get Up

Author:George Jones

“The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.”

Children Differences Powerful Discipline Punishment

Book:Loving Our Kids on Purpose

Source: Loving Our Kids on Purpose

“Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. But you know the pillar of honor is strong in a relationship when you can look at the other person and say, “You are really different from me. It makes me sad when I see you making that choice. But I love you. I value you, I believe in you, and I am here for you in this relationship.”

People Knows Believe Looks Persons Different Values Choices Strong I Believe Differences Mistake Love You Honor I Believe In Believe In You Pillars I Believe In You

Author:Danny Silk

“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”

“The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.”

Children Poetry Differences Ready Poet Our Children Your Children Rhetoric Killing Yourself

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?”

Humans Doe Matter Differences Human Beings Judging Complaining Powerlessness Does It Matter Make The Best Of It

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.”

Reason Humor Funny Differences Religious Devil Dating Catholic Broke Broke Up Funny Dating Religious Differences

Author:Adam Ferrara

“There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.”

Humans Wells Science Differences Activity Mathematics Significant Scales Human Activity Bacteria

Author:Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

“The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].”

Knows Men Science Bits Differences Men And Women Logic Mathematics Statements Bathroom Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:John Allen Paulos

“Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.”

People Needs Together Differences Okay Working Together Deaf Deafness

Author:I. King Jordan

“There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.”

People Giving May Has Beens Christian Values Culture Differences Religious Century Tradition Posts Latter Rebellion Paganism Posture Anti Christian Christian Values

Author:Edmund Clowney

“Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.”

War Christian Causes Differences Religious Race Class Violence Arguing Violent Chiefs Civil War Regions Clash Overlooking

Book:Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

Source: Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring

“Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.”

“Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.”

Knows States Christian Belief Differences Church Religious Particular Wall Exercise Separation Thanks Squares Religious Faith Church And State Imposition

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.”

Trying Bigs Differences

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy”

Ifs Knows Littles Doe Made Mother Differences Picks Movie Sheer Gravy

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”

Men World Way May Different Use Eye Able Lost Women Differences Wife Fronts Men And Women My Wife Spots Desert Different Ways Visuals Convince Hiding Cheese Jungle Variation Refrigerators

Author:Edward T. Hall

“What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.”

Knows Stories Care Hate Differences Stupid Tvs Don't Care Boring These Days Irrelevant Presumption

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.”

“From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics - it's really about people meeting together through sports and putting aside their countries' differences for that time.”

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.”

Differences Nationalism Nazi

Author:Samuel Fuller

“If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.”

Ifs Years America Energy Differences Policy Serious Kings Manage Good Day Bad Day Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Hinges Energy Policy Good Days And Bad Days

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.”

“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.”

Thinking Writing Doe Night Differences Modern Personality Clubs Former Latter Sensibility Affinity Immediacy Literary Works Night Club

Author:Paul Horgan

“Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. ... The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.”

Use Problem Light Earth Form Process Differences Sun Achieve Produce Aim Plant Stores Flight Covered Chemicals Organisms Elusive Streaming Photosynthesis

Author:Robert Mayer

“Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.”

Way Social Differences Democracy Violence Share Heal Resolve Division Realistic Diverse Repression Social Division

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scientist is we quickly tire of our discoveries. We hand them over to people who are not ready for them, while we go off again into the darkness of ignorance, searching for other discoveries, which will be mishandled in just the same way when the time comes.”

People Way Use Hands Science Differences Darkness Knowing Mankind Ignorance Ready Discovery Scientist Tire Not Ready

Author:Jimmy Sangster

“winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.”

Two Earth Differences Air Wind Regions Temperature Density

Author:Evangelista Torricelli

“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”

Men Differences Conditions Color Civilized Globes

Book:The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...

Source: The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...

“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”

“The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.”

Persons Moving Nations Differences Benefits Stones Opposites Reactions Acquire Attachment Covered Stability Rolling Keep Moving Exquisite Clinging Rolling Stones Moss Admonition

Author:Carol Tavris

“Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to success is to tailor the rearing environment to the developmental level of the child--what she or he can handle--and to individual differences among children.”

Needs Children Individual Differences Levels Results Environment Expression Keys Limits Behavior Calm Handle Key To Success Tailors Latitude Developmental Individual Differences

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others less so. Respect for individual differences is in my view the cornerstone of good parent-child relationships.”

Children Different Individual Parent Differences Views Quiet Active Shy Temperament Cornerstones Good Parent Parent Child Individual Differences Parent Child Relationship

Author:Sandra Scarr

“The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.”

Doe Differences Mom Hockey Bulls Pits Whining Pit Bull Stop Whining Hockey Mom

Author:Bill Maher

“In a time like this, when records are not selling, he's the only one that is selling. You know, Drake and all the other ones [did well], but Em did [close to] 800,000 his first week, and he's #1 for the fifth week. It's incredible. I think he has a faithful fan base of people who have been following him for years. They're not going to stop following him and not stop listening to his music. Em said he didn't like his last album as much as this one. You can hear the difference. I like both of the albums. '3 a.m.' is one of my joints. But Eminem has followers that's gonna mess with him until the day he dies.”

People Thinking Knows Years Firsts Has Beens Said Lasts Dies Differences Records Week Fans Listening Incredibles Albums Following Selling Mess Faithful Ems Followers Fifth Joints

Author:Tony Yayo

“Allow me to draw your attention to the value and beauty of marriage. The complementarity of man and woman, the vertex of the divine creation, is being questioned by gender ideology, in the name of a freer and more just society. The difference between man and woman is not meant to stand in opposition, or to subordinate, but is for the sake of communion and generation, always 'in the image and likeness of God.'”

Men Values Names Differences Attention Generations Creation Divine Draws Men And Women Sake Gender Ideology Opposition Communion Subordinates Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Pope Francis

“A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.”

“The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and the fascist madly in love with the past. It is that between the woodsman and the woodcarver. It is that between the mystic harking back to his vision and the artist whose first allegiance is to his craft, and so to the reality it presents.”

Firsts Looks Reality Past Artist Differences Vision Democrat Crafts Hopefully Pounds Distress Allegiance Mystic Fascists Madly In Love

Book:Poetry in our time: a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960

Source: Poetry in our time: a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960

“From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.”

“The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.”

People Humans Has Beens States Law Differences Animal Liberty Century Authority Unique Granted Grants Anarchy Crucial Dominant Reminders Freedom And Liberty Freedom Liberty Magna Carta

Author:Manu Joseph

Ifs World Two Happens Differences Similarity Equilibrium Stasis

Author:Youngme Moon

“When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.”

Humans Art Use Form Differences Painting Photograph Colour Partnership

Author:Ben Harper

“How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.”

Ifs Want Together Culture Differences Freedom Class Talent Building Personality Diversity Economics Distance Committed Sexuality Liberation Aspiration Working Together

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.”

Mean Inspiration Differences Ability Power Economic Willing Authority Gains Obedience Intimidation Armament Bidding Coerce Physical Strength

Book:No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

Source: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior

“Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.”

Want Children Play Social Parent Differences Roles Identity Skills Areas Function Critical Close Friends Social Skills Close Friendship

Author:Zick Rubin

“When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.”

People Looks Hate Stuff Differences Opinion Creating Sitting Down And Shells Sitting Down Fiasco Differences Of Opinion

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.”

Bigs Differences Acting Television Ready Six Pages Series Seven Eight Hanging Out Pace

Author:Joe Mantegna

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