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"The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."

"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."

"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."

"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."

"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."

"One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality."

"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."

"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."

"We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries."

"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."

"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."

"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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