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“in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Differences Business Asking Likes Show Business

Author:Pauline Kael

“Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.”

Art Stills Artist Grows Differences Media Mass Traditional Mediums Exception Allowing Decay Mass Media

Author:Pauline Kael

“Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.”

Ifs Knows Kids Form Values Choices Girl Individual Differences Boys Morality Truth Is Abuse Defined Relative Recipes Harassment Boy And Girl Physical Abuse Relative Truth Individual Choice

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.”

“Weeds grow sometimes very much like flowers, and you can't tell the difference between true and false merely by the shape.”

Sometimes Grows Differences Flower Shapes Appearance Weed True And False

Book:Bye-path Meadow

Source: Bye-path Meadow

“The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.”

Differences Planets Conflict Hostile Valor

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.”

Knows Men May Character Feelings Differences Taste Wide Compliment Companionship Acquaintance Salute

Author:William Matthews

“There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.”

Men Persons Doe Two Law Belief Differences Enemy Drink Opposites Drinking Species Lacking Nationality Unwritten Congeniality

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.”

Ifs Individual Differences Decision Responsibility Making A Difference Decision Making Makers Never Change Decision Makers Things Will Never Change

Author:Jane Goodall

“In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which will be more and more difficult to ignore as the years pass.”

Ifs World Way Years Wells Littles Long Running Difficult Differences Our Lives Core Contribution Unhappiness Long Runs Deceived

Author:Dorothea Brande

“Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.”

Self Beautiful Natural Differences Holy Creatures Pity Contempt Righteous Self Righteous Self Righteousness

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.”

Differences Oppression Similarity Oppressors

Book:Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios

Source: Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios

“The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.”

Kind Differences Notion Disappear Superiority

Author:Marilyn French

“Men give love because they want sex. Women give sex because they want love. That's the difference between men and women. Ever notice how when we talk about our love lives, it's always about a man? Singular. All most of us want is one good man. But when men talk, it's about women. Plural. They want as many as they can get.”

Men Want Giving Sex Differences Love Is Men And Women Love Life Good Man Our Love Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Edna Buchanan

“Mothers know the difference between a broth and a consommé. And the difference between damask and chintz. And the difference between vinyl and Naugahyde. And the difference between a house and a home. And the difference between a romantic and a stalker. And the difference between a rock and a hard place.”

Knows Hard Home Mother House Differences Rocks Vinyl

Author:Patricia Marx

“There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.”

Real Feelings Courses Differences Sentiments Trash Shared Experiences

Book:Speedboat

Source: Speedboat

“The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.”

Mean Doe Social Differences Equality Likelihood Contributors Social Status

Book:The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.”

Mind Firsts States Leadership Differences Leader Vision Clear Creating Dues Managers State Of Mind Being A Leader

Author:Barbara Mikulski

“Considering the very close genetic relationship that has been established by comparison of biochemical properties of blood proteins, protein structure and DNA, and immunological responses, the differences between a man and a chimpanzee are more astonishing than the resemblances.”

Men Has Beens Differences Blood Structure Property Response Comparison Biology Considering Dna Astonishing Protein Resemblance Chimpanzees

Author:Elaine Morgan

“Most people won't have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who's now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count.”

People Way Giving I Can Real Enough Helping Opportunity Differences Wealth Seeing Lucky Impact Dollars Enormous Spares Volunteer Monetary Spare Time Public Sector

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself or success as a team. You have to share the pain and the responsibility and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.”

Ifs Pain Differences Responsibility Team Share Rewards Mediocrity

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.”

Ifs World Should Has Beens Ideas Differences Industry Morality Authority Vote Workers Rounds Scream New Ideas Assault World Is Round

Author:Mary Heaton Vorse

“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.”

Ends Law Religion Social Differences Fiction Aim Monstrosity

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.”

Differences Mistake Industry Bigger International Conception Ignored Fatal Mistakes

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

“Give your difference, welcome my difference, unify all difference in the larger whole - such is the law of growth. The unifying of difference is the eternal process of life - the creative synthesis, the highest act of creation, the at-onement.”

Giving Whole Law Process Growth Differences Creative Creation Eternal Highest Unity Welcome Synthesis Unifying Process Of Life

Book:The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

Source: The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government

“Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.”

Order Sex Differences Crime Degrees Aggression Polarization

Author:Freda Adler

“It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.”

Should Different Differences Groups Share Members Standards Mark Boundaries Cake Desirable Standards Of Living Membership

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.”

Differences Speakers

Author:Nellie L. McClung

“We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.”

Differences Failing Appreciate Superiors Perceive Merit Conception Inferiors Superiority

Author:James F. Cooper

“Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.”

Feels Differences Activism Making A Difference Powerless

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.”

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.”

Pain Challenges Differences Deals Groups Share Position Members Aspect Outsiders Social Change

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.”

Differences Silence

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.”

Differences Prejudice Angry Conviction

Author:Dorothy Sarnoff

“Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.”

Children Stories Parent Differences Lines Family Influence Talent Myth Explanation Temperament Allegiance Children And Parents

Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

“Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.”

Mind May Sex Natural Differences Principles Subjects Evolution Selection Natural Selection

Author:Antoinette Brown Blackwell

“Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen”

Way Love Littles Bigs Happens Differences Listening Caring Things Happen Daily Life Big Things Being There Big Changes Caring More

Author:Yehuda Berg

“When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?”

People Made Differences Awards Looking Back

Author:Elizabeth Dole

“[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.”

People Ifs Want Feels Important Use Purpose Differences Policy Conscience Tables Sake Aliens Seats Making A Difference Disdain Use Of Power

Author:Elizabeth Dole

“Knowledge is the raw material of production and value in this age. It used to be that the main difference between people in our society was between those who have more and those who have less. Today, however, the difference is between those who know more and those who know less.”

People Knows Age Today Used Values Differences Materials Productions Used To Be Our Society Raw Materials

Author:Brian Tracy

“The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.”

People Thinking World Change Differences Making A Difference Daring Unorthodox

Author:Ruby Dee

“Everyone knew fear. It was the reaction that made the difference. Some people hated fear and avoided the experience. Some people endured it as a necessity. And some people became addicted to the rush.”

People Made Fear Differences Reactions Hated Avoided

Book:Metro Girl

Source: Metro Girl

“It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.”

Long Differences Race Color Logical Creeds Race And Color

Book:That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

Source: That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm

“You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.”

Thinking Knows Differences Doctors Surgeons Cardiac

Book:The Other Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Other Daughter: A Novel

“Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.”

Sometimes Differences Wonder Caution Cautious Sometimes I Wonder

Book:D is for Deadbeat

Source: D is for Deadbeat

“The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.”

Use Opportunity Individual Differences Business Company Power Degrees Granted

Book:Change Masters

Source: Change Masters

“Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.”

“Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.”

Men Opportunity Growth Differences Careers Share Men And Women Chaos Corporate Divided

Book:Men and Women of the Corporation

Source: Men and Women of the Corporation

“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.”

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.”

Persons Differences Revolution Making A Difference

Author:Bryant H. McGill

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