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“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.”

People Knows Feels Age Differences Aging Crucial Old People

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.”

People Way Differences Powerful Power One Way Get Away

Book:Improper behavior

Source: Improper behavior

“The tough-minded ... respect difference. Their goal is a world made safe for differences, where the United States may be American to the hilt without threatening the peace of the world, and France may be France, and Japan may be Japan on the same conditions.”

World May Made States Goal Differences United United States Conditions Safe Tough France Japan Threatening

Book:The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Source: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

“Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.”

Whole Differences Execution Martyrdom

Book:Light of Christ: Addresses given at the House of Retreat Pleshey, in May, 1932

Source: Light of Christ: Addresses given at the House of Retreat Pleshey, in May, 1932

“Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.”

Political Differences Moral Principles Depends Disagreement Moral Principles Political Differences

Author:Lord Acton

“Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.”

People Thinking Men Water Differences Blood Machines Mills

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.”

World Night Community Differences Cities Modern Cold Hollywood Hot Rate Equipment Standing Out Adequate Modern Day Hot And Cold

Author:Anita Loos

“When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.”

Matter Fall Differences Spring Seasons Falling In Love

Author:Edna O'Brien

“I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.”

Knows Should Believe Humans I Believe Differences Doubt Shrinks Carrier

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.”

Giving Change Differences Dangerous Safe Transformation Available Accidents Lightning Lamps Illumination Unreliable

Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.”

Past Differences Moral Judgment Ordinary Affair Practicals Reactions Contemporary Historian Provoking Implications Narrators Moral Judgment

Author:Geoffrey Barraclough

“In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.”

Thinking Knows Giving Doe Joy Artist Differences Humility Give Me Vain Expenses

Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south.”

People Seems Differences Deals Land Conscious South Outsiders Vermont Newcomers

Book:Locations

Source: Locations

“The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.”

Men Years Wells Doe Differences Wealth Poor Wife Birth Fairs Fortune Cried Descent Matrimony Uneasy Yoke Discharge

Book:Elizabethan Drama II

Source: Elizabethan Drama II

“As a college coach, I felt you could make a difference in a player's life. There was an educational aspect I thought was important.”

Important Felt Differences Player College Aspect Educational Coaches Nfl Making A Difference

Author:Tom Osborne

“When a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary street, it makes no difference what it illumines-a broken bottle on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen blonde hair of a child's head. The object is transformed and the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of beauty and take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to you.”

“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”

Ifs Wisdom Law Differences Wealth Numbers Class Principles Ought Activity Mass Sacred Property Population Extremes Neighbor Favors Productive Multitudes Private Property

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.”

People Men Feels Wells Looks Art Wanted Artist Differences Wonder Car Ordinary Photographer Wrecks Ordinary Things

Author:Walker Evans

“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.”

Differences Chance Results Subjects Effects Approach Cameras Photographer Significant

Author:Andreas Feininger

“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.”

“I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.”

Ifs Made Together Differences Wonder Four Childhood Food Brother Mom Eating Cooking Restaurants Culinary Recognizing Older Brother Eating Alone Restaurant Business Eating Together

Book:Bouchon

Source: Bouchon

“She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.”

Knows Differences Food Cooking Culinary Immense Midnight Oysters

Author:Juvenal

“Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.”

Way Care Differences Audience Don't Care Crafts I Don't Care Touching Compelling I Care Who Cares Puppets

Author:Frank Oz

“There's a difference between racism and "I don't know any better. I'm clueless." Racism is like, "I'm trying to make you feel bad." That's racism.”

Knows Feels Trying Differences Racism Clueless

Author:Chris Rock

“We, Catholics, share many of the moral guidelines of Mormons, the difference is you guys take it seriously. When the church says something we don't agree with we say, "Oh don't be so crazy." We just laugh it off.”

Guy Differences Church Moral Laughing Share Crazy Catholic Agree Guidelines

Author:Larry Wilmore

“I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.”

Want Feels Made I Can Artist Differences Making A Difference Charitable

Author:Justin Bieber

“We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.”

People Facts Actors Bits Differences Paid

Author:Jane Fonda

“The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.”

Actors Differences Simple Directors Panic

Author:Alan Rickman

“For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.”

Thinking Two Past Remember Hours Differences Brain Minutes Details Meaningful Bullets Visualization Most Meaningful Positive Experiences

Author:Shawn Achor

“I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.”

“Each time I stop somewhere and look out, there are more people sitting there than there were the time I came before. I think that's just a reflection of the fact that what God's doing is really touching the hearts of people and making a difference in their lives. That's kind of the best things you can do to promote anything, I think, is to really just have God present.”

People Thinking Looks Heart Kind Facts Can Do Differences Reflection Sitting Best Things Making A Difference Touching

Author:Louie Giglio

“Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.”

World Real Matter Helping Opportunity Differences Awareness Generosity

Author:Andy Stanley

“The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different.”

Ifs Way Firsts Different Differences First Time Profound Scripts

Author:David Sedaris

“If the people in a relationship were able to get rid of this torment within and replace it with happiness, love, and a sense of well-being, they would never think to hurt another human being. They would be filled with an understanding of others and an appreciation of others and have an ability to reconcile differences without any violence whatsoever, to reconcile differences in a very loving way, a very happy way.”

“As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.”

World Light Would Be Differences Consciousness Higher Diversity Unity Definitions Collectives Midst Appreciated Peace And Love Collective Consciousness Happiness Love

Author:David Lynch

“The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.”

Thinking Looks Long Helping Able Differences Degrees Addiction Definitions Stealing Traditional Apologizing Alcoholics Dictionary Junkie Wallets Blackouts

Author:Jerry Stahl

“There's a difference between a job and a career - if you're the boss you don't stop at six o'clock, you have to worry about everything all the time.”

Ifs Jobs Differences Careers Worry Six Clock Boss

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.”

Thinking Men Feelings Differences Emotion Men And Women Connections Intimate Softness Differences Between Man And Woman Love Feeling Emotions Feelings

Author:David Bezmozgis

“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.”

Sides Differences Bread Both Sides

Author:Gracie Allen

“Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.”

Passion Differences Time Passes

Book:The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.”

Differences Class England Theatre Cease Class Differences

Author:Anthony Burgess

“as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.”

Knows Men Sometimes Differences Boys Middle Essentials Elderly Exterior Middle Aged

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

“The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.”

Men Feels Different Together Differences British Neighbour Kindred Baffled

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.”

Littles Differences Results Mischief Frivolity

Book:I love Miss Tilli Bean

Source: I love Miss Tilli Bean

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