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“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”

“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.”

“There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.”

Source: A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.”

Whole Differences Pay Asking Fundamentals Relative Machinery Taxpayers

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“There is a fundamental difference between separation of church and state and denying the spiritual heritage of this country. Inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. are Jefferson's words, 'The God Who gave us life gave us liberty -- can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?'”

Country States Spiritual Nations Differences Church Liberty Fundamentals Conviction Separation Secure Heritage Memorial Church And State Separation Of Church And State Gift From God Jefferson Memorial

Author:Ronald Reagan

“A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.”

Way Differences Function Fundamentals

Author:Scott Meyers

“A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.”

Thinking Needs Games Differences Fundamentals Backgrounds Designer Impress

Author:Sid Meier

“There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties”

Humans Differences Higher Fundamentals Faculty

Author:Charles Darwin

“You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”

May Different States Moments Energy Enjoy Differences Consciousness Flow Foundation Fundamentals Peaceful Present Moment Alignment States Of Consciousness High Energy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.”

Matter Character Differences Serious Theory Taste Consequence Importance Regard Fundamentals Mere Confusion Ethical Preference Subjective Temperament

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“Differentiation of treatment is not motivated by the difference of value of the two races, but of the fundamental difference of their respective natures.”

Two Values Differences Race Fundamentals Treatment Motivated Differentiation

Author:Adolf Hitler

“There is a fundamental difference between Jesus and Muhammad and their teachings. When the Jews brought a prostitute to Christ and asked him what to do with her because the law says stone her, Jesus said, let the one who has not committed any sin throw the first stone. This is a great teaching. To be happy as human beings, we don't need lots of laws. All we need are few good teachings and this is one of them.”

Needs Firsts Humans Said Law Jesus Christ Differences Human Beings Sin Teaching Stones Fundamentals Committed Jew Muhammad Great Teaching Good Teaching

Author:Ali Sina

“For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.”

Differences Violence Fundamentals Species Congress Spite Refrain

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.”

Values Fighting Differences Fundamentals Terror

Author:Karen Hughes