"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."

Difference, Understanding

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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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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."

Anthea Turner, English Entertainer

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"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."

Edmund H. North, American Writer

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"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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"The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying."

Michael Musto, American Writer

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"Be different to make a difference."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

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"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."

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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

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"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."

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"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."

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"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."

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"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."

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"In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow."

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