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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"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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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."
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"The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
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"Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference."
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"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
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"The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment."
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"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."
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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
Lie
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
Truth
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
Change
"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
Experience
"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
Success
"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."
Humor
"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
Memory
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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