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“Its hard to be different, Scarborough said. And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel...”
“People teachers, other students, parents constantly made offhand comments that didn't mean much to them, but I read something else in their words. A hidden language that told me I was different. ...”
“Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative...”
“The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.”
“When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.”
“Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.”
“Life among clones would not be worth living, and a sane person will only rejoice that others have abilities that they do not share. That should be elementary.”
“She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her...”
“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”
“The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship.”
“Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.”
“We are all different expressions of one reality, different songs of one singer, different dances of one dancer, different paintings but the painter is one.”
“He was a kind of minence grise, a political leader, in a clandestine movement. Everyone knows there are girls who go for that kind of thing. There are girls who go for Huysmanists, for that matter....”
“I roam the streets, silent and still,I look for You, in each and everything.I have come a long way from myself,so away,so long, that I,myself have become a memory.And so i seek Your gaze, to See my...”
“Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.”
“I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed (17)”
“When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst.”
“Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those difference...”
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
“There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.”
