But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicanswe are federalists.

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Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he...
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ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that n...
ZELDA LA GRANGE

Aliens have been here for millennium.
But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN

We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ...
WENDY MASS

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Disagreement, however, is not anger.
ROXANE GAY We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO The principle of compounding may not necessarily mean investing once & getting residual interest add...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. What is the meaning of life…to give life meaning.
CLIFFORD COHEN I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni...
JULIAN CASTRO If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have s...
JAIME LERNER The difference between Right and wrong is simple,its principle
ACISSEJ FLOWERS I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just f...
CAROLYN MALONEY We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll...
RAFIK HARIRI Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin ev...
MAE JEMISON we are different we make a difference
TAYYAB AMJAD We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian c...
CLARA ZETKIN The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
MARK TWAIN We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but w...
RAFIK HARIRI World will be a different place with a whole world of difference if we can build the bridge between ...
ANUJ SOMANY In the end, we all have our different levels of moral values.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no di...
WILLIAM JAMES But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races
MARK TWAIN It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
MARK TWAIN We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.
EPICTETUS We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for...
ROBERT JORDAN Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware o...
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle...
BART STARR I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term...
CHARLES R. DARWIN I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term o...
CHARLES DARWIN I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term o...
CHARLES DARWIN One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readi...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the l...
ANNIE BESANT Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE The only sin we never forgive each other is difference of opinion.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I don't mind telling you we had a difference of opinion on the domestic production. But we both have...
BOB STEC 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we ...
DICK MORRIS This is good news to us all. We are defending the principle of the right for caricature and satire.
PHILIPPE VAL We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is no change in our position. The main difference is that they in principle don't agree to lin...
MAHMUDUR RAHMAN I don't know what people are talking about. They should not confuse a difference of opinion that we ...
DAVES GUZHA The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always...
GERMAINE GREER The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fas...
VENUS WILLIAMS What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is co...
RACHEL CUSK If there is no principle involved (scriptually and/or secularly)—what difference does it make if y...
WILLIE HAYNES If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is
SYED SHARUKH We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while o...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Wisdom evolves, but one core principle in it does not. It is the principle of becoming better, by de...
ABHIJIT NASKAR It's a matter of principle to me. I don't think the taxpayers of Jefferson County should have to pay...
FRED BELL The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a...
KATHERINE F. GEROULD Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the p...
CHRISTOPHER HAYES The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of spe...
MARTIN BUBER We're delivering the exact same number of offerings as in Windows XP, but the big difference is that...
BARRY GOFFE All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER Mozart and Neil Diamond may have begun with the same idea, but that a work of art is more than an id...
MARK HELPRIN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We have a monument here for the greatest troublemakers of our history -- Thomas Jefferson and George...
DANA ROHRABACHER We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and ...
MAHMOUD ABBAS It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, ...
JOHNNY RICH Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of ...
BELL HOOKS Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and pri...
IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR It's not much of a difference from when we were in the same building.
JAMES NESBITT The Jefferson Awards are a way to tell readers about people who have made a difference in their live...
BILL ROBERTS A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

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THOMAS JEFFERSON My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicanswe are federalists.

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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicanswe are federalists.

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