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Difference Quotes



"It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine."


"There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar."



"I definitely want to be involved but only while I think I can make a contribution and I make a difference."


"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."


"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."



"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."


"There is just a major difference between the sound of analog tape and digital tape."



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


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


"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."


"About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."



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


"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."


"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."


"Grow up and be different and don't let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different."



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


"Our differences are the real treasures."


"Be different to make a difference."
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