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“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.”

I Can Differences Loneliness Solitude Concepts Monk

“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”

Past Differences Forgiveness Bygones Let Bygones Be Bygones

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.”

Love Hate Differences Love Is Objects Hatred Lovely Concentration Principal Love Hate Love And Hate

Book:Strictly personal

Source: Strictly personal

“Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.”

Men Lying Differences Waste Chiefs Excess Sober Subjective Brutes Extravagance Propensity Prunes

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”

Differences Relation Objectives Extensions Subjective

Book:Radical Empiricism: Human Understanding

Source: Radical Empiricism: Human Understanding

“Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.”

Way Growth Born Differences Impossible Information Library Determine Finished Symptoms Blanket Public Library Dismayed Lesbianism Sketchy Hermaphrodites

Author:Maya Angelou

“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

Men Writing Black Differences White Female Males Combination Black And White White Man Black Women

Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison

Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison

“... many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.”

Country Sometimes Facts Certain Born Differences Religious Records Groups Crime Population Dues Sections Twists Segregation Warp Tuberculosis Lack Of Education

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Real Character Government Turns Nations Differences Trouble Willing Pride Judgment Fairs Criticism Difficulty Accomplishment Rely Patriotism Withstanding

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.”

Earth Moving Night Girl Differences Summer Familiar Fats Aberration Fat Girl

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, "I'm really happy that you're my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here's a dollar.”

Children Said Father Names Differences Rooms Five Talent Dad Dollars Appreciation Ran Gifted Tangible Beggar Really Happy Tokens Great Talent

Author:Bill Cosby

“To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.”

Wells Two Differences Party Heard Circumstances Mutual Temper Disputes Disagreement Accommodate Forbearance

Book:The writings of George Washington

Source: The writings of George Washington

“... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.”

Humans Together Grows Differences Human Beings Responsibility Growing Up Ought Roots Intellect Branches Latter Social Responsibility Wheat Roots And Branches

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?.. the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.”

Men America Young Differences Known Murder Unions Jew Russia Slaughter Horseback

Author:Golda Meir

“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.”

Men Causes Differences Human Nature Factions Nature Of Man Latent Federalist Papers

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.”

Firsts May Two Country Government Differences Numbers Democracy Greater Citizens Latter Republic Spheres Small Numbers Delegation

Book:The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

“There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.”

Ifs Men Doe Certain Opportunity Differences Errors Temptation God Love Falsehood Tempting

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important than their differences.... The common responsibility of all Americans is to become effective, helpful participants in a way of life that blends and harmonizes the fiercely competitive demands of the individual and society.”

“A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.”

“The question of "unreality"is a very important one. Misled by grammar, the great majority of those logicians who have dealt with this question have dealt with it on mistaken lines. They have regarded grammatical form as a surer guide in analysis than, in fact, it is. And they have not known what differences in grammatical form are important.”

Important Facts Reality Form Differences Lines Known Logic Majority Guides Analysis Realism Mistaken Grammar Misled Unreality

Book:Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

Source: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy

“Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.”

Thinking World Humans Differences Human Beings Perfect Streets Example Source Newspapers Journalism Thoughtful Thinker Artificial Typical Superficial Main Street

Author:Gertrude Stein

“One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.”

Doe Different Happens Certain Differences One Thing Youth Aging Expected

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.”

Knows Order Three Differences Money Millions Crazy Taxes Vote

Author:Gertrude Stein

“There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.”

People World Humans Important Form Courses Differences Human Beings Essentials Importance Equality Cease Combination

Book:A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

Source: A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein

“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”

Men Wells Made Two Character Helping Used Hours Differences Opinion Watches Expression Drawing Statements Manners Compare Clock Distinction Plates Johnson Brighter Neat

Author:James Boswell

“Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.”

Individual Differences Honor Fame Appraisal

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.”

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.”

Way Ideas Happens Motivational Differences Powerful Attitude Our Lives Circumstances Elements Importance Luck Illustrating

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall”

Grows Differences Growing Up Tree Wall Spread Tall Pears

Author:Sara Coleridge

“Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was really a dream?”

Ifs Long Doe Play Character God Dream Night Actors Found Differences Lines Acting Happened Stage Brave Accidents Nothingness Gross Playwright Authorship Midsummer Midsummer Night's Dream

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”

“I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.”

Source: The Ascent to Truth

“The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.Nothing can do away with this ineffaceable difference. The Greek quarrel with the body and its desires is, that they hinder right thinking; the Hebrew quarrel with them is, that they hinder right acting.”

Thinking Ideas Body Desire Can Do Differences Acting Obedience Greek Judaism Quarrels Hebrew Hinder Hellenism

Author:Matthew Arnold

“The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.”

People Want Feels May Persons Different Feelings Wanted Lying Mother Differences Clear Theory Shame Guilt Guilty Ashamed Wrong Lied

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we feel embarrassed because we look bad, and we feel shame because we think we are bad. When we are embarrassed, we feel socially foolish. When we are shamed, we feel morally unworthy.”

Thinking Feels Looks Differences Shame Caught Foolish Embarrassed Embarrassment Unworthy Inappropriate

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh.”

Differences Huge Skins Structure Bones

Author:Jasmine Tookes

“Curitiba is not a paradise. We have all the problems that most Latin American cities have. We have slums. We have the same difficulties, but the big difference is the respect given by people due to the quality of the services which are provided.”

People Problem Bigs Given Differences Cities Quality Difficulty Dues Paradise Latin Latin America Slums American Cities Latin American

Author:Jaime Lerner

“On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.”

Years Made Two Remember Names Differences Resources Two Years Considering Domain April Funding Allowance Registration Domain Names

Author:Matt Mickiewicz

“... [woman suffrage] has made little difference beyond doubling the number of voters. There is no woman's vote as such. They divide up just about as men do.”

Men Littles Made Differences Numbers Vote Voters Divides Suffrage Woman Suffrage

Book:Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Source: Crowded Hours: Reminiscences of Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.”

Knows Men Doe Real Matter Care Jobs Mother Differences Boys Teach Teaching Son Training Men And Women Take Care Be A Man Real Things Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Frank Pittman

“When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither increases nordiminishes. But as it is certain there is a great difference betwixt the simple conception of the existence of an object, and the belief of it, and as this difference lies not in the parts or composition of the idea which we conceive; it follows, that it must lie in the manner in which we conceive it.”

Thinking Believe Ideas God Lying Certain Belief I Believe Differences Simple Existence Objects Increase Conception Composition Belief In God

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“[T]here is a vast difference in the attitude of a man with a gun in his hand and that of one without a gun in his hand. When a man does not have a gun in his hand, or a woman for the matter, he or she tries harder to use his or her mind, sense of compassion, and intelligence to work out a solution.”

Men Trying Mind Doe Matter Use Hands Differences Attitude Compassion Solutions Gun Harder Work Out

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.”

“We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.”

“Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.”

Differences Race Human Nature Fades Fade Away Power Of Nature

Author:Barack Obama

“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”

Made Matter Today Differences Consciousness Essentials Computer Perception Capacity Intelligent Patterns Perceive What Matters Incapable Spontaneous

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is probably the cleanest, and certainly the most orderly, in the house.... An Irish kitchenis usually a temple dedicated to the goddess of disorder; and, too often, joined with her, is the potent deity of dirt.”

Character House Differences Society Former Kitchen Temples Disorder Dedicated Goddess Apartment Dirt Deities Orderly

Book:Trollope-to-reader: A Topical Guide to Digressions in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

Source: Trollope-to-reader: A Topical Guide to Digressions in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

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