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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Among Become Differences Disappear Feeble Give Grows Honor Less Men Notion Rise Too Vanish Which Will

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No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Alike Between Combine Differences Different Education Find Fortune Interest Laws Make May Men Much Never Pleasure Purposes Render Same Society Some Sometimes State Tastes Them Though Will

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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Again Chief Degree Differences Distinctions Economic Kind Marked Most Terms

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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

~Alfred Nobel

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Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be talked about because it's uncomfortable.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: About Because Differences Different Growing Growing Up Majority School Talked Uncomfortable Understanding Up White World

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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.

~Alvaro Enrigue

Topics: About Appear Appears Author Between Book Character Clear Differences Essay Extremely First Glance Gradually Less Narrator Novel Parrot Personal Sad Than Transformed Which Writing

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I actually didn't find too many differences between B-town and the south. The difference lies in the temperature. I was shooting when it was 45 degrees Celsius in Chennai; Mumbai is cooler.

~Amy Jackson

Topics: Actually Between Cooler Degrees Difference Differences Find Lies Many Mumbai Shooting South Temperature Too

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When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

~Amy Klobuchar

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And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: About Across Between Classes Communities Countries Cultures Difference Differences Harder Journalists Look Much Similarities Very Write

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For India's economy to expand as rapidly and yet more sustainably than China's, we need to make our differences into virtues rather than vulnerabilities.

~Anand Mahindra

Topics: China Differences Economy Expand India Make More Need Our Rapidly Rather Than Virtues Vulnerabilities

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