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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. -- Ruth Benedict
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. -- Ralph Chaplin
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences -- Ruth Benedict
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. -- Toni Morrison
The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize. -- Madeleine Albright
The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society. -- George Gilder
I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. -- Maya Angelou
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. -- J. Philippe Rushton
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. -- Edward Albee
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. -- Madeleine Albright
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything. -- Matthew Fox
If only we could accept that there is no difference between us where human values are concerned. Whatever sex. -- Liv Ullmann
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. -- Edward Bond
The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another. -- Juan Enriquez
We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines. -- Roger Ebert
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. -- Maya Angelou
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves. -- Jared Diamond
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. -- Sri Aurobindo
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings. -- John Ortberg
The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. -- Jaron Lanier
Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself! -- Macklemore
What is the difference between a 2Â°C world and a 4Â°C world? Human civilisation! -- Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. -- John Perry Barlow
Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings. -- Stuart J. Russell
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world. -- Caroline Myss
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder. -- Ernest Hemingway
Neuroligacally, human beings haven't caught up with today's overstimulating environment. Getting kids out in nature can make a difference. -- Michael Gurian
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. -- Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human. -- John Maeda
the profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ... -- Virginia Woolf
When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart. -- Peter Senge
My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference. -- Angelique Kidjo
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. -- Terry Pratchett
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I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world. -- George Foreman
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly. -- Christopher Moore
I actually think every person can make a difference. Every single human being has within the impulse to express more of who they truly are. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children. -- Moms Mabley
Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all. -- Dalai Lama
Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural...Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious. -- Travis Culliton
When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction I heart takes us decide whether we should have human rights? -- Isabella Poretsis
When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction I heart takes us decide whether we should have human rights~? -- Isabella Poretsis
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. -- Bill Gates
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. -- Ashley Montagu
The biggest obstacle in interacting with China is the difference in perspectives about basic values. These include issues such as human rights, the concept of law and constitution. -- Ai Weiwei
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast. -- Oliver Stone
No one can tell the difference between a clone and a human. That's because there isn't any difference. The idea of clones being inferior is a filthy lie. -- Nancy Farmer
When did the skin on our bodies, the difference in our voice, or the direction our heart takes us decide whether or not we should have human rights? -- Isabella Poretsis
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world. -- Benjamin Carson
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality. -- Rachel Cusk
If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal! -- Brene Brown
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands. -- Chrissie Hynde
I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice. -- George Cheyne

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