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"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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"Be different to make a difference."
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"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."
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"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."
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"It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine."
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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."
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"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
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"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."
History
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
Change
"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
Success
"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."
Science
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
Truth
"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."
Motivational
"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
"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
Will
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
Perception
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
Action
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