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“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

“Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.”

States Differences Enormous Vermont

Author:Fred Rogers

“It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.”

World Feels Dream Differences Wonder Essentials Who We Are Our World

Author:Fred Rogers

“It is not, then, in the content or substance of folly that its difference from truth lies, but in where it comes from. It comes not from 'the wise man's mouth' but from the mouth of the subject assumed not to know and speak the truth.”

Knows Men Lying Speak Differences Wise Subjects Mouths Substance Folly Speak The Truth

Book:Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

Source: Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship

“I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.”

Differences Gender Determined Disturbing Gender Differences

Book:In a Different Voice

Source: In a Different Voice

“Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.”

People Ifs World Nations Understanding Differences Lines Saws Imagine Relation Hiding Divides

Author:Wesley Clark

“There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’”

Years War Left Differences Perfect Party Republican Vote Democrat Civil War Exception Nuts Moderates Printed Ideological Not Perfect Bumper Sticker Bumper Sticker

Author:Barney Frank

“As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.”

“Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Book Real Reason Problem Film Games Causes Differences Novel Issues Scared Theatre Video Comic Obsessed Capture Comic Book Adaptation Adapting Movie Theatre

Author:Alex Garland

“The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.”

Stories Differences Levels Taken Smart Program Profit Determined Selling Buying Investors Cash Trading Unlikely Advancing Buying Stocks

Author:Benjamin Graham

“The difference when you have kids comes up when someone wants to meet you out after 9:30 at night. You consider that giant sacrifice. You're like, "Do I do this? Do I stay out until 10:30 and be angry, all of tomorrow?”

Want Kids Night Differences Sacrifice Tomorrow Angry Come Up Giants

Author:Adam Sandler

“I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.”

Feels Differences Making A Difference

Author:Joe Dante

“The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going to be the thing that's going to be my expression of how I make a difference in the world.”

Ifs World Differences Expression Gun Who I Am Psychological Making A Difference Totems

Author:David Brooks

“I think you can learn lots of skills playing football. Team building is one. You also learn how to solve problems within your team. Sometimes you find yourself playing with players that you don't necessarily like, but you have to put your differences aside for the good of the team. It gives you skills that you may not appreciate at the time.”

Thinking Giving May Sometimes Problem Differences Player Team Building Football Skills Appreciate Solve Finding Yourself Team Building Football Team Playing Football

Author:Hope Powell

“If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Mean Children Sometimes Helping Bigs Age Three Differences Forget Months Treats Raises Treated Three Years

Author:Meryl Streep

“I think there's some generational difference between some of the older members of the press and this younger president [Bill Clinton]. I think the older members are not quite on the same wave length, and in general. I think it's been very devastating to the president.”

Thinking President Differences Members Bills Presses Clinton Wave Length President Bill Clinton

Author:David Gergen

“None of us are any better than anyone else and none of us are any worse than anyone else, and we're all equal and whatever we can do to celebrate our commonality rather than our differences, which is what religion does, to me... religion just compartmentalizes people and makes everybody into a box.”

People Doe Can Do Differences Equal Boxes Celebrate Commonality

Author:Ron Perlman

“I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.”

Men Said Book Remember Reading Differences Saws Written Men And Women Time Travel Traveler Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“There are times when only America can make the difference between war and peace, between freedom and repression, between life death. We cannot save all the world's children but we can save many of them.”

World Children War America Differences Life And Death Repression Between Life And Death

Author:William J. Clinton

“We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.”

World Jobs Values Interest Differences Stronger Making A Difference Stakes Policemen

Author:William J. Clinton

“There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.”

Differences Decision Grace Mercy Bless Grace And Mercy

Author:Max Lucado

“The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.”

Order Actors Differences Watches Painter

Author:Al Pacino

“Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.”

World Soul Together Courses Individual Differences Huge Changing The World

Author:Richard Branson

“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”

“I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.”

People Thinking World Real Differences Setting Settings Live By

Author:Richard Branson

“I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.”

Thinking Should Real Differences

Author:Richard Branson

“Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.”

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Differences Subjects Identity Position Demand Claims Relation Absolutes All Time Recognition Categories Identical Reciprocity Individuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.”

People Thinking Government Together Order Differences Judging Constitution Remembered Guarantees Dictatorship Sovereignty Judicial Framed Constitutional Government

Author:Alan Keyes

“There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.”

Humans Differences Responsibility Machines Autonomy Abdication

Author:Jaron Lanier

“And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste And I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to take this all in I've got one, two, three, four, five Senses working overtime Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.”

World Trying I Can Two Pain Three Differences Church Space Pleasure Five Four Football Taste Smell Senses Kicks Bells Lemons Five Senses Limes Chimes Tweens Church Bells

Author:Andy Partridge

“There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.”

War Games Differences Danger Infinite Terrorism Superpower War On Terror No War War On Terrorism

Author:John Pilger

“The variation in the value of money, however great, makes no difference in the rate of profits.”

Values Differences Rate Profit Variation Value Of Money

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.”

Source: An American Son: A Memoir

“Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.”

Ifs Doe Differences Half Hell Drink Empty Glasses Damn Half Full Half Empty

Book:Angels Fall

Source: Angels Fall

“The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.”

People Shows Happens Speak Born Differences Rich Bias Rich People Elitist

Author:Jerry Springer

“There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.”

Wells Bigs Law Differences Folks

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.”

“We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.”

Ifs Two Bigs Purpose Courses Sides Differences Party Mines Republican Majors Concern Court Democrat Libertarian Practicals Bunch Manage Necks Pretending Boots Principal Back Again Badminton

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .”

Long Dream Left Differences Dying Okay

Author:Alicia Witt

“I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.”

Long Differences Ability Failing Shapes Great Power Life Span Ability To Change

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.”

Needs Today Differences Slave Employee Boss Ottomans

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.”

Knows May Differences Taken Information Variables Guessing Predicting

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."”

Writing Persons Differences Worry Careful Slim Slender

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.”

Made Wanted Differences South Desert Jungle North Pole

Book:Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure

Source: Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure

“Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.”

“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”

People Has Beens Two Character Feelings Nations Differences Justice Race Liberty Moral Aspect England Notion Scotland Flexible Spine Charter Scotch Dialect Statutes Idiom Britons Two Nations

Author:John Galt

“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Firsts Believe Persons Sometimes Action I Believe Differences Too Much Danger Periods Bravery Courageous Coward Frightened Fearful Cowardice Peril Cowardly Branded

Author:Gene Wolfe

“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”

Source: Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences

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