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“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and truth.” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth
“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“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
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” Confucius, Analects
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“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
“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
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” George Orwell, 1984
“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“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
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“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
“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
“everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz
“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
“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
“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
“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
“We all live in our own world. But if you lookup at the starry sky, you’ll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are.” George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“What others? I don't profess to be different from my kind. I'm consumed by the same wants and the same longings.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“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
“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“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
“I don't mind a different guy if he ain't too different. ” John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
“Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.” Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“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
“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside.” Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“What does it matter where my body happens to be? . . . My mind goes on working all the same. In fact, the more head downwards I am, the more I keep inventing new things.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

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