Differences Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Two, Use

  Bill Bryson (2002). “Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words”, p.24, Broadway Books

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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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• Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Islands, Three

  "Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".

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• It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

  Michael Chabon

  Denial, Used, Known

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.197, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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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• And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, One Day, Looks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

  Hugh Laurie

  Fall, Blow, Piano

  "The Gun Seller". Book by Hugh Laurie, 1996.

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• And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Irrelevance, Long, World

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• Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Motivational, Real

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• It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Pride

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• Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Happiness, Being Happy, World

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Mules

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Literature, Martyrdom

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

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• I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

  Sarah Palin

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  Palin’s Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2008.

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• What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Rights, Adults, Different

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Ordinary, Funny Basketball

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  Danica Patrick

  Lap, Honest, Driven

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