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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
Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. -- J. Philippe Rushton
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
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything. -- Matthew Fox
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. -- Madeleine Albright
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. -- Edward Albee
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
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
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
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
I try to be good to myself. Look, we're human and people have differences. -- Milo Ventimiglia
The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. -- Ruth Benedict
Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings. -- Dalai Lama
On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support. -- Adele Scheele
Experiencing differences is crucial to the human condition. Especially when that difference is over the head, blower powder. -- Ernest Hemingway
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. -- Norman Cousins
Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them. -- Rosie Fellner
What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences. -- Estelle Ramey
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. -- Alfred Nobel
I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction. -- Herb Alpert
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things. -- Murray Bookchin
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. -- Teresa de Lauretis
Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange. -- Chuck D
Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary. -- Henry Eyring

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