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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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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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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My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
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In the first piece that you Beckett wrote about me circa 1946, you never once used the word color. That was important. I was struck by it.
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
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The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
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I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
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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.
