#differences

Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean. But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met. To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point. And the two countries are still at war. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#babylon #borders #bridge #communication #communications

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#american #among #between #countries #differences

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#audiences #because #been #benefits #between

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#differences #faults #recognizes #reconcile #shortcomings

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

— George W. Bush

#choose #dictators #differences #free #free nations

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#communities #debate #differences #diversity #find

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#art #become #better #characters #considerably

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#bond #common #condemned #culture #differences

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

#dangerous #differences #expressed #high #honest

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

#almost #become #came #character #come