"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."

Difference, May, Property, State

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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 Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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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."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Be different to make a difference."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore."

Sean Kinney, American Musician

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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."

Rogers Hornsby, American Athlete

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"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."

Leon Askin, Austrian Actor

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"Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder."

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"Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency."

Nature, Science, Actions, Man

"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."

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"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."

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"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand."

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"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."

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"Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses."

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