"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

Difference, Events, Living, Years

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"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living."

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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

Difference, Rest

"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

Difference, Man

"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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Difference, Hate, People, Identity, Jealousy

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Difference, Unconscious

"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."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Difference, Empathy, Understanding, Perspective

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

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Difference,

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

George Eliot, British Author

Difference, Jokes, Taste

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Difference, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Our differences are the real treasures."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

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"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."

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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

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"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."

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"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."

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"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."

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"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."

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"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

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

"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."

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

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

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

"Our differences are the real treasures."

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"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."

"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."

"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."

"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."

"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."

"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."

"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."