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• Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Color, Alive

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.4, Vintage

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• The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

  John Berger

  Pain, Philosophical, Space

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.69, Vintage

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• Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Work, Form

  Jacob Bronowski (2011). “Science and Human Values”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Hair, Average

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• Oh, the illusion of choice in the modern world - don't get me started. But don't you agree that the Internet has softened our brains and made us forget that 'choice' used to mean something different from selecting options from menus?

  Lynne Truss

  Mean, Choices, Brain

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Two, Novelists

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• We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

  John Drinkwater

  Art, Order, Class

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

  Steven Moffat

  Play, Fiction, Four

  "'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2012.

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• To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Yoga, Purpose, Compare

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• I love working with different musicians in the studio, that's a real joy working with someone for the first time.

  Bob Seger

  Real, Joy, Musician

  "Rock and Roll Never Forgets: An Interview With Bob Seger". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I've dabbled in several different religions.

  Jerry Hall

  Different Religions

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• A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

  Ernst Mach

  Movement, Vivid, Enough

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Women are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Responsibility, Men, Race

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

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• If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Equality, Kind, Deny

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.99, Ultramarine Publishing

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• The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Cutting, Ideas, Creative

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• As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

  Tiger Woods

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2002.

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• There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

  Gordie Howe

  Player, Games, Wish

  Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

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• When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

  Bob Seger

  Writing, Challenges, Trying

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• In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

  Roman Abramovich

  Kids, Russia, Play

  "Inside the hidden world of Roman's empire". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2006.

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• Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of what goes on between organisms or inside organisms as part of their processes of thought.

  Gregory Bateson

  Numbers, Quantity

  "Number is Different from Quantity". CoEvolution Quarterly, www.oikos.org. Spring 1978.

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• Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

  Ernst Mach

  Pain, Philosophy, Medicine

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

  Joe Louis

  People, Needs, World

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  Karl Abraham

  Difficult Questions, Long, Choices

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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