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“My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different...”
“We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”
“We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.”
“If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.”
“Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.”
“We are too focused in our differences to see how much we already share.”
“What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn't fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come ...”
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great hand appeared over her ...”
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbia...”
“It didnt affect him because he couldnt fathom how I felt. He never saw how I held or how I dealt. And when a breeze hits, his first thought is never a scent. We worked in different ways and differe...”
“We could choose to celebrate our differences, rather than over-analyze them. This might help us become more realistic about the generalizations to which we subscribe. For example, consider this. If...”
“As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel,go to the theater, go to museums.What he wantedwas to lie ...”
“There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.”
“The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people...”
“The fact that we're all different is the one thing we all have in common.”
“We are all same, inside our homes!”
“Don't accentuate our differences,but instead focus on our similarities.”
“...we live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories...”
“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
“So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??”
