A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist because I think there are differences between men and women.
Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm and women are always expected to act like men we will never be as good at being men as men are.
More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Gentlemen I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
Traveling you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities places exchange their form order distances a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust but of strength and inspiration.
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement crime and sexual behavior.
An emancipated society on the other hand would not be a unitary state but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Science for hundreds of years has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
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.
Some have called we rock and roll performers who never retire 'troubadours.' I enjoy this misnomer immensely. While there are many differences between me and my distant predecessors in L'Occitane I do believe there is a lineage that connects us of the last 70 years with those romantic singers of the High Middle Ages.
I was raised Jewish my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage and while many of our friends are deeply religious we have chosen to focus on our similarities not our differences. We teach our children compassion charity honesty and the benefits of hard work.
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.