Difference Quotes
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
Salman Rushdie
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What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.
R. C. Sproul
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The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.
Arleigh Burke
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I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
Abraham Lincoln
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Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.
Rachel Caine
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My role is to remind people that everyday people can make a difference. And if we get people out there doing things to make America a better place, we can bring change.
Nina Turner
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There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
Alan Alda
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The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore.
Sean Howard Kinney Alice in Chains
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The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it.
Donald Davis
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One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
William James
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There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.
Elayne Boosler
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity; someone who knows the difference between good and bad.
Isaac Herzog
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Albert Einstein
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Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
Patrick Ness
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries Shah
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It is strange a difference comes from a subtraction.
Natasha Tsakos
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It was more about getting together with other musicians and playing live. I needed to suss out a full set for the Last Summer tour, and I didn't want to play Fiery Furnaces material. So half of our set was new songs that we ended up recording for this album. And that made such a huge difference - going into the studio after playing a song for two years, knowing it inside-out and having sung it millions of times, and then recording it is a totally satisfying experience. You're suddenly in this controlled environment and you can make it sound exactly as you've been imagining it.
Eleanor Friedberger
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The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
Afeni Shakur
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What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
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The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Allen Neuharth