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"There is more difference within the sexes than between them."
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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

"I know the difference between black magic and white magic."

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

"You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."

"We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet."

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."

"It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like."

"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
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"Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary."
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