Something different has the quality of not being the same as another thing, being distinct.

Quotes

• We leven allen verschillend en toch gelijk.
  • We're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.
  • Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944), 6 July 1944.
  • Variant translation: Our lives are all different and yet the same.

• We've looked and looked, but after all where are we?
  Do we know any better where we are,
  And how it stands between the night tonight
  And a man with a smoky lantern chimney?
  How different from the way it ever stood?
  • Robert Frost, The Star-Splitter.

• I shall be telling this with a sigh
  Somewhere ages and ages hence:
  Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
  I took the one less traveled by,
  And that has made all the difference.
  • Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken", st. 4 (1916)

• Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
  • Thomas Jefferson, inaugural address (March 4, 1801); in Andrew A. Lipscomb, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1904), vol. 3, p. 319.

• If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
  • Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (1996), chapter 3.

• Unity isn't established by ignoring the differences between different groups, but by persuading everyone to take all the different struggles seriously.
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The fight against racism doesn't stop here (July 23, 2013), Socialist Worker.

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