Mark Twain Quotes
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Okay is just a word I use so I won't have to talk about what's inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.
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Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a magazine in your hand, but there are lots of ways you can signal differences. Where native advertising and these other things get tricky is when the consumer can't tell the difference between edit and advertising.
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Never forget that you are a [child] of God. He loves you. Live by your standards. Stand up for what you believe in. Sometimes it is not easy, and you may be standing alone for a while. Look for friends with integrity and character, then go to them and express appreciation for their examples. You might even find someone who has been feeling as lonely as you. Pray for guidance and protection from the Lord. He will sustain you. He will become a trusted friend, and you will discover that your example will attract many friends who will take courage from your strength of character.
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Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
