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• Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Numbers, Angle, Very Good

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• Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially in what they deem the means of promoting that good. One side believes it best done by one composition of the governing powers, the other by a different one. One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other the selfishness of rulers independent of them. Which is right, time and experience will prove.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Believe, Ignorance

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.386

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• They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

  Ringo Starr

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Religion

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• Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

  Tupac Shakur

  Father, Weekend, Reality

  Song: Papa'z Song, 1993

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• Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Plus, Egotism, Strokes

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• It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Writing, People

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

  Robert Fulton

  Science, Invention, States

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• If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

  Esther Hicks

  Motivational, Encouragement, Eye

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

  Peter D. Kramer

  Energy, Culture, Today

  Peter D. Kramer (1994). “Listening to Prozac”, Sage

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• The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Opposites, Levels

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Animal, Simple, Political

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• Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible methodologically but one must be alert to the possible occasion for confusion. (...) Seen as an organism, man cannot be anything else but a complex of things, of its, and the processes that ultimately comprise an organism are it-processes.

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, Men, Confusion

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• And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

  Theodor Adorno

  Health, Opposites, Sick

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.60, Verso

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• Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Inspirational, Keys, Phases

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• I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

  Neil Young

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Song: Ambulance Blues, Album: On The Beach

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• As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Names, Mind

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• It's frustrating - not that I expect to be the same person I was 10 years ago, but I do expect to do certain things. In all honesty, my body for the most part feels really good. But at this point of my career, I have to rely on different parts of my game, knowing how to take some short cuts when you can.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Honesty, Cutting

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• You and I, travel to the beat of a different drum, can't you tell by the way I run, every time you make eyes at me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Eye, Rejection

  Song: Different Drum

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• I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

  David Cassidy

  Priorities, Slim, Chance

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• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  David Clennon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

  David Crystal

  Language, Spread, Features

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• So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

  Jackie Cooper

  People, Effort, Half

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• Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Levels

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• Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

  James S. Coleman

  Girl, School, Boys

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