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Difference Quotes
"We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference."
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"The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'."
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"Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young."
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"I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely."
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"There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself."
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"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room."
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"Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works."
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"What's the difference? One guy's the same as the other."
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"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it."
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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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"I used to think that it didn't make any difference how far you ran if you had a good, strong musculoskeletal system and no underlying cardiovascular problems."
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"Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be."
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"The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one."
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"Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film."
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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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"There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny."
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"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
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"Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards."
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"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit."
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"You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task."
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"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense."
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"How can we live and die and never know the difference?"
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"I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk."
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"One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you."
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"I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference."
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"In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous."
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"There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can."
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"It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference."
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"I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference."
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"Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents."
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"The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish."
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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 a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
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"The value of an item - in the mind of a consumer - is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag."
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"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
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"Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference."
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"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
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"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."
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"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
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"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."
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"There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry."
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"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
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"The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage."
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"We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide."
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"The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it."
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"I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference."
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"The support in Britain made a big difference."
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