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“Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.”

Men World Believe Wells Two Different Might Lying Force Sides Differences Accepting Morality Jew Mortals Misfortunes Despise Tolerate Primal Enmity Two Worlds Gentiles Two Lives

Author:Maurice Samuel

“Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.”

Men Differences Psychology Men And Women Relate Fascinated Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Karrine Steffans

“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”

Men Has Beens Country Seems Differences Church Taken Ought Models Towns Faults Ancient

Author:George Edmund Street

“A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.”

Knows Men Looks May Christian Differences Church Lord Alive Sight Christian Inspirational God Knows Dead Man Lord God Morticians

Author:Vance Havner

“Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.”

Men Wells Littles Enough Hate Community Differences Making A Difference Gears Overrated Agitate

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).”

“Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.”

Men Littles Found Term Differences Amount Men And Women Researchers Time Spent Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Kate Fox

“There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.”

Men Real Sometimes Dream Differences Forgiving Real Men Allowance

Book:The White Princess

Source: The White Princess

“Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.”

Men Differences Practice Events Draws Gun Shooting

Book:Sackett

Source: Sackett

“A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.”

Men Should May Differences Quality Virtue Primaries Limitation Making Money Assumption Quantity Consumerism Businessman Overconsumption

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.”

Men Want Children Differences White Forests Indian White Man

Book:The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.”

Men Character Faces Differences Stranger Hypocrisy

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression.”

Thinking Men Differences Class Records Expression Observation Perceive Latter Worthwhile Nevertheless Facility Lower Class

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.”

Men Differences Civilization Civilized Savages Gilded

Author:Mark Twain

“Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.”

Men Shows Differences Virtue Habit Vices Mask Sarcasm Maxims

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.”

Men Differences Sin Repentance Frightened Repent

Book:The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience

Source: The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience

“The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.”

People Men Differences Originals Intellect Commonplace

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.”

Men Force Differences Property Fingers Stomach Theft Pinching

Book:The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

Source: The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

People Men States God Religion Order Stuff Differences Church Common Dying Quiet Authority Hunger Ill Excellent One Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish.”

Thinking Men Differences Mistake Stronger Foolish Virtuous Moderates Extremist Great Mistakes Better Man

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.”

Men Has Beens Spirit Religion Differences Christianity Taught He Man Holy Holy Spirit Scholar Seers

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.”

Men Doe States Seems Differences Capitalism Advantage Honestly Socialism Pursue Chiefs Former Latter Pretense

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.”

Men Littles Persons Jobs Next Goal Realizing Challenges Differences Knowing Rich Gay Commitment Performances Prejudice Satisfaction Categories Artificial Pale Historic Measuring

Author:Alan K. Simpson

“Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.”

Men Way Has Beens Differences Protect Angel Female Court Males Dare Foolish Nurse Heroism

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.”

Men World May Doe Has Beens Easy Differences He Man Painful Another World Space Travel

Book:Perelandra

Source: Perelandra

“The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.”

Men World Has Beens Said Wisdom Lying Differences Known Wise Fool Folly

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.”

People Men Wells Happens Differences Principles Practice Quiet Office Statements Dry Things In Life

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.”

Men Should May Art Shows Differences Teach Design Greatness Humility Painting Architecture Works Of Art Sculpture Exhibits Greatness Of Man

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.”

Men Different Differences Honest Duty Conception Devoted Fatherland

Book:No exit, and three other plays

Source: No exit, and three other plays

“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 are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.”

Men Long Differences Habit Contact Editors Privileged

Book:Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.”

People Ifs Men Way Mind Looks Facts Together Young Sides Black Differences White Common Disease Men And Women Divides Black And White Both Sides Astounded

Author:Doris Lessing

“There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.”

Men Able Differences Ability He Man Brother Notable

Book:The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories

Source: The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories

“The difference between two men is usually a woman.”

Men Two Differences

Author:Evan Esar

“One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.”

Men Differences Deals One Man Prostitution

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.”

Men Made Use Feelings Government Age Sex Differences Race Moral Elements Climate Various Metaphysics Metaphysical Employed Aesthetics

Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

“The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.”

Men Differences Endurance Brutes Swiftness Thoroughbreds

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.”

Men Want Feels Mind Real Seems Young Differences Genius Research Mark Reputation Young Man Application Modesty Mistaken Newton Isaac Real Genius

Book:The student's manual: designed

Source: The student's manual: designed

“In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.”

Men Used Differences

Book:The Stakes of Diplomacy

Source: The Stakes of Diplomacy

“[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding the former as philistine. ... The difference comes down to the fact that social science really wants to be predictive, meaning that man is predictable, while the humanities say that he is not.”

Men Want Facts Humanity Social Differences Former Latter Mutual Contempt Predictable Social Science Looking Down Philistines

Author:Allan Bloom

“It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.”

Source: Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son

“Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.”

Ifs Men Firsts Christian Together President Differences Forget Common Fronts He Man Late Atheist Finished Arguing Closets Wheat Get Together President Kennedy

Author:Malcolm X

“Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.”

Source: The real George Washington

“Every man for himself.”

Men Differences Every Man Every Man For Himself

Book:Aesop's Fables: A New Version

Source: Aesop's Fables: A New Version

“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.”

“An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.”

Men Littles Said Important Matter Seems Differences Roots Hearing Distinction One Man Acquaintance Carpenter

Book:The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as he has done in the necessary.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.”

Source: Works, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition: withletters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works