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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
"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."
"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
"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."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
"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."
"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."
"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else."
"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
"The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke, there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire."
"For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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