"The uniforms we have today are not so different from the ones we had in Vietnam, which are not so different from the ones in Custer's day, " says Ned Thomas , MIT materials science professor and director of the ISN.

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We think religions can co-exist and many of our moral positions are not so different to those of the Catholic Church - in some respects we're more liberal.

BBC: The Valley of the Dawn - Brazil's refuge for lost souls

We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people, that we share common hopes and a common creed, that the dreams of a little girl in Tucson are not so different than those of our own children, that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled.

CNN: Transcript: Obama's State of the Union speech

We are so unsure of our own identities that we are not as accepting as we could be of people of different identities.

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