Differences Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Past, Lebanon, Resistance

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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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• 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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• When I did 'Ugly Betty' it was very similar to working on 'Mad Men' - great group of people in their own little world. But I don't really see a lot of difference. Of course, on the cable shows, you can tackle subjects and be more specific, because networks have to appeal to the masses, but that's constantly changing and evolving.

  Bryan Batt

  Men, People, Mad

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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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• You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

  Helen Fisher

  Real, Men, Remember

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• Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

  Helen Fisher

  Kissing, Men, Smell

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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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• There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Tower Of Babel, Towers, Stories

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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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• 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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• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Fate, Community

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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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• 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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• 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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