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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."

"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."

"We are treated different because we want to be treated different."

"Be different to make a difference."

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

"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."

"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."

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

"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."
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"Four Characters in Consciousness-How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters in the process, of which it shall be the duty of the present chapter to treat in a general way:1) Every 'state' tends to be part of a personal consciousness. 2) Within each personal consciousness states are always changing. 3) Each personal consciousness is sensibly continuous.4) It is interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others, and welcomes or rejects-chooses from among them, in a word-all the while."


"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."


"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."


"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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