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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."
"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."
"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."
"Be different to make a difference."
"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."
"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
"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."
"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."
"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."
"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
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