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The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video. ↗

— Aaliyah

#different person #film #person #than #totally

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#around #coherent #creating #grown #half-million

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception. ↗

— Willie Aames

#brothers #different #family #fault #felt

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#death #died #humanity #indifferent #inflict

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#constant #create #different #effort #given

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#country #different #ethnicity #fair #gender

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#converts #different #different parts #early #father

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#battles #beginning #british #came #century