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“The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.”

Differences Subjects Commit Abortion Penalties Pro Life Homicide

Author:Saint Basil

“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

“Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.”

Kind Matter Lying Evil Differences Generations Conditions Subjects Circumstances Diversity Infinite Property Species Good And Evil Decay Entity Subject Matter Life Death Alterations

Author:Giordano Bruno

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Differences Subjects Identity Position Demand Claims Relation Absolutes All Time Recognition Categories Identical Reciprocity Individuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.”

Differences Chance Results Subjects Effects Approach Cameras Photographer Significant

Author:Andreas Feininger

“Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.”

Mind May Sex Natural Differences Principles Subjects Evolution Selection Natural Selection

Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a physical verity. We do truthfully experience our lives differently because our bodies are different. It is in what we do with our experience that we are the same. We feel, absorb and examine with the same intensity, and intense experience honestly examined informs the art of both sexes equally. ... The power of imagination illuminates all human lives in common.”

“It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.”

Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation

“Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.”

Humans May Lying Understanding Differences History Subjects Degrees Highest Weakness Lowest Roman Empire Dogmatic Obstinacy

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Two Book Reading Understanding Differences Pay Teacher Subjects Expression Conversation Highest Bother Operations Agreement Two Ways Learners

Author:Mortimer Adler

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

Science Differences Subjects Accounts Reasoning Scholarship Fuzzy

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.”

People Differences Pay Company Trouble Subjects Fund Getting Old Getting Older Demographics Insurance Companies Private Insurance

Author:Milton Friedman

“The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.”

People Thinking Want Matter Shows Choices Culture Stuff Differences Rooms Talking Seeing Subjects Scared Theatre Access Mainstream American Culture Youtube Subject Matter Living Room

Author:Eli Roth