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• We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, People, Stories

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• There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

  Fred Wilson

  Ceo, Hiring

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• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Business, Congratulations

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Power, Risk

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• I'm a big believer in debate and difference of opinion.

  Naomi Wolf

  Opinion, Debate, Bigs

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• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Christian, Love You, Mean

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Unity, Genius, Talent

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• I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

  Andrew Young

  Athletic, Sportsmanship, Olympics

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• Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

  Julian Baggini

  Europe, Mind, Battle

  "Why the white cliffs of Dover are so special" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I think that in the realm of commercial, popcorn cinema, the amount of message or smuggling of ideas you can get in there is quite limited. Like, if you think you're going to make a difference or change anything, you're on pretty dangerous thin ice.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Ice, Ideas

  "'Elysium' Interview: Neill Blomkamp's Team On Creating A New Sci-Fi World". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, screencrush.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, Blessing, Miracle

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• When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

  Romola Garai

  Children, Get Well, Transition

  "Romola Garai brings modern sense to roles" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. November 26, 2012.

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• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Iron, Building, Capacity

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• You know the great thing, though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away, make you something different in an instant.

  Mark Andrus

  Blow, Different, Life Is

  "Life as a House". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

  William J. Clinton

  Common Humanity, Working Together, Matter

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• Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.

  Luce Irigaray

  Issues, Salvation, Our Time

  Luce Irigaray (1993). “An Ethics of Sexual Difference”, p.5, Cornell University Press

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• But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

  Rachel Cohn

  Choices, Ghost, Knows

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.50, Egmont UK

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• How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Earth, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.143, Vintage

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• A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

  Darren Shan

  Past, Would Be, Looks

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• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

  William James

  Degrees, Different, Mysticism

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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• You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ends, Know How, Knows

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

  Tom Robbins

  Lying, Hero, Doe

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• Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Desert, Way To Live

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Littles, Lasts

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)

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