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"Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."
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"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."
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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
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"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
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"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
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"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
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"I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot."
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"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
Chance
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
Act
"We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
Work
"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."
Society
"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try."
Time
"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."
Failure
"I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there."
Life
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
Practice
"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones."
People
"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution."
People
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