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As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. ↗

— John Donne

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Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. ↗

— Jane Elliot

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I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

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We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. ↗

— George W. Bush

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Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. ↗

— Paul Valery

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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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

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It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character. ↗

— Eric Holder

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