“There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke various substances that alter their feelings and thoughts - and the traditional persecution of men for their religion... What all of these persecutions have in common is that the victims are harassed by the majority not because they engage in overtly aggressive or destructive acts... but because their conduct or appearance offends a group intolerant to and threatened by human differences.” MenHumansFeelingsIndividualDifferencesCommonGroupsActivityVictimFundamentalsMajorityVariousAppearanceTraditionalSmokeSubstanceDestructiveAggressiveThreatenedHomosexualPersecutionSimilarity Author:Thomas Szasz
“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.” LongStillsTodayDifferencesResultsCommonGreaterShareProductsEvolutionBirthThousandCreaturesBehaviorFellowsPlantSpeciesPatternsAppearanceHeritageSimplestAdaptationAncestryLiving CreaturesPrimatesMutationMicrobesBehavior PatternsExternal Appearance Author:Fred Hoyle
“Many people are noting the difference between Hillary Clinton's friendly public appearances and her blunt and direct Twitter account. Yeah, she's nice in person, and mean on the Internet. You know, kinda like EVERYONE.” PeopleKnowsMeanPersonsDifferencesNiceInternetDirectAccountsYeahClintonAppearanceFriendlyBlunt Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.” SometimesGrowsDifferencesFlowerShapesAppearanceWeedTrue And False Book:Bye-path Meadow Source: Bye-path Meadow
“I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.” MenMindBelieveFormFallI BelieveDifferencesIdealsAppearanceMannersReasonableExteriorAuthorshipPhysical AppearanceReasonable Man Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.” DifferencesGenerationsBehaviorTwentiesAppearanceBreedingSelectiveMammalsSelective Breeding Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom