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“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”

“There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.”

Kind Enough Lost Differences Strange Comfort Teeth Misunderstanding

Author:Faith Sullivan

“How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.”

Way Years Has Beens Facts America Past Differences Views Land Strange Europe India Importance Israel British Colonialism Israeli Homeland Congo

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.”

Made Differences Strange Unique Equality Recognition Comparison Otherness

Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.”

Thinking Sports Differences Strange Enjoyment Arbitrary Elevation

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.”

Stuff Differences Particular Strange Like You Links Precise Selective Detours

Author:Jarvis Cocker