Difference Quotes
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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.
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There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.
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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.
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It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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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.
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It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop.
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Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
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But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.
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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.
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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.
