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“Watching the spontaneous acts of kindness, compassion, and generosity, courage, and bravery in the aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings was so deeply moving. It is in our nature to want to help, to serve, to be part of something larger than ourselves. We have a desire to connect with others. We want to make a difference in the world. I would call this a spiritual longing to be whole, interrelated, interconnected.”

“There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all.”

Trying Winning Differences Losing Winning And Losing

Author:Tim Huelskamp

“Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.”

People Ifs Want Needs Real Differences Normal Relation Comprehensive Treaties Peace Treaties

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“There is no difference between our methods and those of anybody bu else-the only difference is that our motivation and dedication he is much greater.”

Inspirational Motivation Differences Powerful Greater Method Dedication

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast. For, we are assured, it is well known that in the natural sciences we start from observation and proceed by induction to theory. And is it not obvious that in history we proceed very differently? Yes, I agree that we proceed very differently. But we do so in the natural sciences as well.”

Wells Seems Science Natural Differences Known Theory Evidence Agree Obvious Observation Well Known Assured Methodology Natural Science

Book:The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

Source: The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

“With all your power, ask the Lord for humility and brotherly love, because God freely gives His grace for love towards one's brother. Do an experiment on yourself: one day ask God for love towards your brother, and another day - live without love. You will see the difference.”

“The menu of this kitchen will have more than soup; it will serve as an opportunity to explore the vast untapped power of food as a force for participatory democracy, as a means of empowerment for those who have little and as a lens through which we embrace, and in fact relish, our differences but see and live through our commonalities. If you eat, then you are a part of this.”

Ifs Mean Littles Facts Opportunity Force Differences Democracy Empowerment Embrace Kitchen Soup Lenses Relish Menus Commonality Participatory Democracy

Author:Sam Kass

“We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India.”

Want Dream Faces Differences Development India Your Dreams Your Face

Author:Narendra Modi

“The image of a country is not just about economic and military strength. The soft face of a country also makes a difference. Sports are one such soft power which can capture the world's attention to India.”

World Country Faces Sports Differences Attention Economic Military India Making A Difference Capture

Author:Narendra Modi

“I think that it's too much to take on the world. It's too much to take on Los Angeles. All I can do is to go back home to the canyon where we live and ask the kinds of questions that can make a difference in our neighborhoods.”

Thinking World Kind I Can Home Asks Can Do Differences Too Much Making A Difference Neighborhood Los Angeles Back Home Canyons

Book:A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams

“Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right. Being frightened when you're not sure you're all right is a big difference.”

People Giving Book Feelings Bigs Able Reading Differences Safe Not Sure Rely Frightened Permission Terrified Delicious Safe Places

Author:Susan Hill

“we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not dressed up in its birthday costume. It is what it is. It regards its national interests as important enough to fight for. And the difference on the whole Ukraine situation is that the Russians are prepared to fight for their position on Ukraine, and the West is not.”

Important Enough Whole Might Fighting Interest Differences Situation Position Return Normal Regard Prepared West Russia Costumes Ukraine Dressed Up It Is What It Is National Interests

Author:Marvin Kalb

“The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.”

Way Differences Following Drivers Sentiments Hitting Sentimental Rabbits Pedestrians Swerve

Author:Frank Herbert

“I'm in a really good place. I used to be a right worrier, but being in a settled relationship has made a massive difference. I was on my own for three years before meeting David. I'm very happy with him, he's a fantastic man. But you never know what's around the corner, so you just hope for the best.”

Knows Men Years Made Used Three Differences My Own Meetings Corners Used To Be Fantastic Massive Three Years Very Happy Around The Corner Good Place Hoping For The Best Happy With Him

Author:Anna Friel

“If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.”

Ifs Matter Actors Grows Differences Poor Worry Growing Up Successful Lucky Paid Lucky You Moaning Supporting Actors

Author:Jason Flemyng

“The idea of implanting memories where by the implantee couldn't tell the difference between a real experience and a fantasy experience was really cool. And his ideas of technology - do we control technology or does technology begin to control us? His work hasn't aged a day it seems.”

Doe Ideas Real Seems Differences Memories Technology Fantasy Really Cool

Author:Colin Farrell

“There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.”

People World Long Has Beens Stills Differences Long Time Plenty

Author:Christoph Waltz

“It's not an accident that the U.S. ranks lowest of all major donor countries in the world - that is the share of our income that goes to development aid. Americans will ask whether, because were so generous privately, that makes up the difference. But it doesn't. We still rank far below other countries.”

World Stills Country Asks Differences Share Development Majors Accidents Aids Income Generous Other Countries Lowest Donors Development Aid

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.”

Kind Real Stories Differences Happened Physics Mythology Things Happen Believable

Author:Bruno Heller

“The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.”

Different Christian Leadership Differences Church

Author:Johnny Hunt

“There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.”

People Christian Leadership Differences Church Smart Educated

Author:Mike Huckabee

“There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.”

Bigs Christian Leadership Differences Church Leader Being A Leader

Author:Andy Stanley

“The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.”

Thinking Knows Humans Ends Political Politics Differences Capitalism Slavery Conservative Libertarian Meat Controlled Alas

Author:Jerry Pournelle

“In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.”

Years Humans God Funny Past Religion Differences Atheism Atheist Believer Agreement Skepticism Skeptical Funny Atheist

Author:Michael Shermer

“Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.”

Writing Children Differences Education Teach Our Children Educational

Author:George H. W. Bush

“The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.”

Way Philosophy Facts Lying Differences Gossip

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.”

Hard Helping Easy Differences Dollars Helping Others Making A Difference

Author:Kevin Kelly

“Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.”

Want Pain Differences Grieving

Author:Spencer Johnson

“It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.”

“The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.”

World Humans Self Care Differences Human Beings Principles Creative This World Evolution Ego Stronger Passionate Awakening Making A Difference Partnership Authentic Self Ego And Soul

Author:Andrew Cohen

“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.”

Men Energy Differences Ability Mere One Man

Author:Tom Arnold

“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?”

Source: Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or, political essays, published in ... 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies; the former by John Adams ... the latter by Jonathan Sewall [or rather, Daniel Leonard] ... To which are added a number of letters lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor, etc

“There is a difference in being in shape and being in football shape. Any one can out on the field and run around , but once you start getting hit and have to get up then you find out the difference between being in shape and football shape.”

Motivational Running Differences Fields Football Shapes Get Up Nfl American Football

Author:John Madden

“Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.”

Bits Differences Records Seeing Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Camera And Photography Leica

Author:Ernst Haas

“Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.”

Sometimes Differences Masters Economics Favors Regulation Legislature Workmen Equitable Wealth Of Nations Counsellors

Book:The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master

Source: The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master

“Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on its parents (we call this “terrorism”), and inadvertently killing a child in an attempt to capture or kill an avowed child murderer (we call this “collateral damage”). In both cases a child has died, and in both cases it is a tragedy. But the ethical status of the perpetrators, be they individuals or states, could not be more distinct For Chomsky, intentions do not seem to matter. Body count is all.”

“I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.”

Years Made Facts Today Differences Years Ago Weight Neat

Author:James Brown

“The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.”

Use Differences Thick Pencils Right Words Crayon

Author:Peter Marshall

“I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference”

People Want Kind I Can Film Differences Involved Gay One Day Projects Making A Difference Gay People

Author:Jill Bennett

“It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.”

Individual Differences Ability Deals Personality Unexpected Success And Failure

Author:Ross Perot

“Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.”

“Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.”

Stills Christian Differences Christian Inspirational Devotion Attainment Devotion To God

Book:Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.

Source: Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII.

“At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.”

Made Said Feelings Reality Differences Religious Silence Acid Latent

Author:Robert Stone

“We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.”

Years Children Opportunity Felt Differences Greater Achieve Security Window Our Children Retirement Partisans Window Of Opportunity Unreachable

Author:Gordon Smith

“If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.”

Ifs World Has Beens Differences Mystery Position This Life Acknowledge

Book:Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

Source: Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.”

Past Fall Sound Differences Simple Ears Solve Rhythm Now And Then Recalls Abiding Cloaks Forecasts

Book:Orfeo

Source: Orfeo

“If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.”

People Ifs Want Differences Involved Making A Difference Mediocrity Status Quo You Make A Difference

Author:Seth

“We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people”

People Differences Tests Passing Passings Making A Difference Fitting

Author:Seth

“There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.”

Long Differences Pleasure Huge Connections Impact Instant Lasting Shallow Applause Long Lasting Lasting Impact

Author:Seth

“The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these.”

People Happens Order Individual Differences Walks Institutions Chaos Things Happen Making A Difference Worthwhile Indispensable Make Things Happen

Author:Seth