Difference Quotes
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
George Bernard Shaw
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I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.
Craig Newmark
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I like fresh and clean. I don't ever want anyone to smell me and say, 'Oh that guy is wearing a lot of cologne.' I want people to smell me and say, 'You smell really good!' I think there is a difference.
Eric Stonestreet
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Friendship is identification and difference.
Hermann Hesse
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The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
Seth Godin
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At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.
George Pattison
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Just because people are related doesn't always make the difference it should.
John Searles
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I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society.
Sean Spicer
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Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.
Lauren Graham
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The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.
Judith McNaught
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Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
Curtis White
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The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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She could only attribute the difference to each parent’s attitude. Micah acted as if all was well, so Trevor responded in a similar manner. Paige acted as though she was miserable, and that meant Trevor had to worry about her and carry a lot of angst.
Brenda Novak
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
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It's the difference between having a couple of dates, dating for a few months, or having a marriage and living together for eight years or so. It's easy to look back fondly on the ones that were somewhat short.
Brigid Brannagh
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In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.
Blaise Pascal
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As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.
Mike Bouchard
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Unless you choose to do great things with your life it makes no difference how much money you make or how much power you have.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Tom Hanks
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Norman Davies
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There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
Mitchell Baker
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If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power. Just consider what you have to do to guess right.
Edwin Lefevre