"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."

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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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Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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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 only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"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."

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"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

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