Bonnie L. Oscarson Quotes
We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.Bonnie L. Oscarson
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
Faran Tahir -
We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.
Otto Schily -
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo -
Though the demonetisation move should be welcomed, govt should have planned well in advance to ensure that no common man suffer.
Vijay -
Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Samuel Gompers -
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
Aasif Mandvi -
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
Samuel Butler -
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney -
And understand: class differences will not save you.
H. Rap Brown -
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler
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Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.
Kevin Spacey -
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye -
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender fluid without being gender dysphoric. This phenomenon may be culturally significant, but it has only a little bit in common with the people who feel they can have no authentic self in their birth gender.
Andrew Solomon -
I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
Kanye West -
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.
Umberto Eco -
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.
Walden Bello -
These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.
Epictetus -
I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.
Nicholas Jarecki -
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine -
Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.
Kay Arthur -
We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.
Bonnie L. Oscarson