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“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” L. Frank Baum, “The Marvelous Land of Oz” - 1904

“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, “The Road to Oz” - 1909

“If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names, but they all contain water.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and truth.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to...” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.” Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia” - 1785

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“No nation every loses its dignity or its good standing by conciliating its differences, and by exercising great patience with, and consideration for, the rights of other nations.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Quarantine Speech” - 5 October 1937

“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

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