Differences Quotes - Page 15

• It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Giving, Honor

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XVIII, 1840.

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• No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Different

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.506, Bantam Classics

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• I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

  Tina Turner

  Men, Essence, Want

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• It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.

  Shania Twain

  Dream, Song, Attitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Focus, Boat, Made

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  David Viscott

  Shining, Up To You, Specialty

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• Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.

  Dwyane Wade

  Success, Basketball, Mean

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 26, 2005.

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• That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.

  Rick Warren

  Grace, Done, Christianity

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• Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

  Ethel Waters

  Thinking, Yellow, People

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• Our goal should be to understand our differences.

  James D. Watson

  Goal, Should

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• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  Len Wein

  Important, Lenses, Plot

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Basketball, Making A Difference

  "Kanye West Compares Himself to Hitler". www.usmagazine.com. August 08, 2011.

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• The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Idiot, Lunatic

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• As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'

  Richard Whately

  Truth, Believe, Inquiry

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• My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

  Betty White

  Mother, Dad, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Eight

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Media, Literature

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• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Sex, Women

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

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• In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

  Juan Williams

  Race, Vote, Critical

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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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• In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

  James Wolcott

  Thinking, House, President

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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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• 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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• There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Latin, America, Issues

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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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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