Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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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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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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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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The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.
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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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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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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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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.
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Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
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I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.
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If there's one perk, it's being the quarterback of America's team and being able to make a difference off the field.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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.... In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.
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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.
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Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perhaps there are some other unchangeable differences; probably there are a number of irrelevant differences. But it is clear that until social expectations for men and women are equal, until we provide equal respect for both sexes, answers to this question will simply reflect our prejudices.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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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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It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
