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"When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other."
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"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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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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"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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"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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"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
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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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"The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory."
Consequence
"The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind."
Mind
"At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel."
Society
"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."
Change
"Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors."
Art
"Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order."
Work
"Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them."
Entropy
"The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular."
Nature
"Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement."
Theory
"Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs."
Cause
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