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“Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.”

“There is often no material difference between the enjoyment of the highest ranks and those of the rudest stages of society. If the life of many a young English nobleman, and an Iroquois in the forest, or an Arab in the desert are compared, it will be found that their real sources of happiness are nearly the same.”

Ifs Real Young Found Differences Stage Materials Source Civilization Highest Forests Desert Enjoyment Source Of Happiness Noblemen Iroquois

Author:Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.”

“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.”

Ifs Done Differences Position Inspire Data Making A Difference Data Science

Book:Results: the key to continuous school improvement

Source: Results: the key to continuous school improvement

“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.”

“In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid numbers based on measurement, is paramount. All the committees, the politicking and the plans would have come to naught if a few unpredictable nuclear cross sections had been different from what they are by a factor of two.”

“For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.”

People Ifs Want Believe I Can Reason School I Believe Differences Church Ill Hungry Vulnerable Frightened Homeless Unemployed Mosques

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.”

Ifs Able Together Differences Argument Get Together

Author:Malcolm X

“A lot of people are confused about the difference between the soul and the spirit. Basically the spirit is the envelop that protects the soul from harm. If the spirit is relatively healthy, the soul will be too.”

People Ifs Soul Spirit Differences Healthy Protect Harm Confused

Author:Elena Avila

“I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.”

Ifs Should Believe Looks Real Law I Believe President Change Differences Authority Claims Refuse Disagree President Obama Lawlessness

Author:Ted Cruz

“You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.”

“Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.”

Ifs Trying Littles Art Stills Ideas Seems Together Jobs Joy Universe Voice Differences Actresses Activism Making A Difference Entertainers You Can Make A Difference

Author:Salma Hayek

“I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.”

“I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable...you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.”

Ifs Knows Made Asks Differences Walks Steps Impossible Rejects Improbable

Author:Gary Holder-Winfield

“Humans, like all other creatures, must make a difference; otherwise, they cannot live. But unlike other creatures, humans must make a choice as to the kind and scale of difference they make. If they choose to make too small a difference, they diminish their humanity. If they choose to make too great a difference, they diminish nature, and narrow their subsequent choices; ultimately, they diminish or destroy themselves. Nature, then, is not only our source but also our limit and measure.”

Ifs Humans Kind Humanity Choices Differences Source Creatures Limits Environmental Scales Making A Difference Sustainability Diminish

Author:Wendell Berry

“I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses. A winning solution is to work out the differences and, when it's over, let it be over. Then they can get back in the game as a team.”

Ifs Believe Games Winning Individual I Believe Sports Loses Differences Successful Team Battle Members Solutions Work Out Get Back Sports Team Power Struggle Back In The Game

Author:Steve Goodier

“There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.”

Ifs Littles Differences Successful Investment Profit Speculation Anticipate

Book:The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?

Source: The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?

“There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.”

Ifs Firsts Guy Names Differences Five Violence Other Guys Runts

Author:Jack Kirby

“It's so important for people in political groups to learn the difference between productive criticism and not. When it's about something you can change, it's productive. But if it's just like "You are an evil person", you can't change that. There's no way around that.”

People Ifs Way Persons Important Political Evil Differences Groups Like You Criticism Productive Can't Change Political Groups

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“You can think whatever you want to and laugh, but I believe if I would have never learned to put my stuff back on the right grocery store shelves, and I would have never learned to put my cart back where God told me to, I don't believe I would be standing here today preaching this message to you. And I think there are literally millions of people who miss the will of God for their life because they think little things don't make any difference.”

“The Law of Attraction ensures that you start attracting more of what you want into your life instead of what you don't want or instead of what always has been. The highest functioning people never even put their energy on what is if they don't like what is. That's an important difference, because most people who have a lot of "problems" in their life are constantly talking about them and focusing on them, so they just keep attracting more of those circumstances into their lives because that's where their thoughts are.”

People Ifs Want Has Beens Important Problem Law Energy Differences Talking Circumstances Highest Attraction What You Want Law Of Attraction

Author:Wayne Dyer

“A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.”

Ifs Matter Bigs Three Actors Differences Lines Missing Fine Percent Painful Good Actors Fine Lines Ferrari Chevy Cylinders Racehorses

Author:Christopher Walken

“I don't feel drugs should be illegal. I don't think people should take drugs every day, but I don't see any difference with people taking drugs like they drink. Take drugs on Saturday night and go to a party and have a good time and have somebody drive you home or whatever it is so you don't hurt anybody else, that's fine. But if you wake up Monday morning and take 'em again you're a drug addict. But, they should be legal.”

“That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.”

Ifs Persons Song Differences

Author:Ne-Yo

“Superficially it's a problem if homosexuality is genetic - if the difference between people's sexual preferences is genetic - because at least a pure homosexual would be unlikely to reproduce and therefore pass on the genes. So the first question you ask is, is it actually genetic, and the answer is probably to some extent yes.”

People Ifs Firsts Problem Would Be Asks Differences Answers Pure Genes Homosexuality Homosexual Preference Unlikely

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Firsts Made Reason Kids Differences Lines Waste Meetings Interaction End Times Rope Spend Time Spotlight First Lady Greetings Always Thinking

Author:Michelle Obama

“If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it.”

People Ifs Persons Done Helping Differences Hurt Talking Havens Angry Excuse Offense Forgiven Testimony Holding On

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Words also are filters. They have to be translated. Even in the original language, there is interpretation and some ambiguity. If there's a cultural difference between the writer and the reader, that might come out in words. But with pictures, there's more efficiency.”

Ifs Might Language Differences Reader Originals Interpretation Efficiency Ambiguity Filters Cultural Differences

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Donald, I'm not sure if you're even aware of this, but the only difference between you and Michael Douglas from the movie, Wall Street, is that no one's going to be sad when you get cancer.”

Ifs Humor Funny Differences Streets Wall Cancer Not Sure

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“The main difference between commissioned work and work I do for myself is that if I'm doing for myself, I don't have to worry about sticking to an art description or working for a specific audience or project.”

Ifs Art Differences Worry Audience Projects Description

Author:Julie Dillon

“You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.”

Ifs Art Care Language Differences Fiction Sentences Construction Non Fiction Artifice Art And Life

Author:Ethan Canin

“If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Beautiful Differences Taste Summer Beats Seasons Remarkable Ingredients Vegetables Might Have Been Strawberries Fresh Ingredients

Author:William Katt

“I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.”

“You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.”

Ifs Doe Different Play Differences Wonderful Computer Guitar Machinery Transparent Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Different Music

Author:Brian Eno

“If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.”

Ifs World Ends Bigs Happens Loses Differences Lines Half Economic Century Species Stability

Author:E. O. Wilson

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

“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

“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

“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 all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“People, materials, facilities, money, and time are the resources available to us for conducting our business. By applying our skills, we turn these resources into useful products and services. If we do a good job, customers pay us more for our products than the sum of our costs in producing and distributing them. This difference, our profit, represents the value we add to the resources we utilize.”

People Ifs Jobs Values Turns Differences Pay Materials Products Cost Skills Resources Add Profit Available Customers Good Job Facility Conducting

Author:David Packard

“Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.”

Ifs Knows Looks Heart Made Hands Suffering Evil Differences Lord Knowing Grace Mouths Fellows Angry Lays Critical Seeds Trials Dust Made It Sinner Compassionate Harsh Affliction Infirmity Iniquity

Author:John Newton

“Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do”

Ifs Men Want Mind Firsts May Wish Differences Ability Doubt Achievement Accomplish Every Man Unlimited

Book:Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

Source: Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]

“If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.”

Ifs Differences Hurt Alive Good Times

Book:Dog Soldiers

Source: Dog Soldiers

“If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.”

Ifs Men Science Differences Study Hair Wit

Book:The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

“If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.”

Ifs Evil Differences Moral Absolutes Communism Fascism Minors Nazi Pits Similarity Nazism Relativism Moral Relativism

Author:Paul Johnson

“I thought the first two seasons of America's Got Talent were good. I think this one is the best one by a mile because they - you see the difference this year, I think, with the crowd being effectively the fourth judge. But most importantly, I think that these shows have to have a relevance because if you're not finding stars at the back of these shows - whether it's Idol or Got Talent - they're a complete waste of time.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Two Shows America Stars Differences Talent Judging Waste Findings Seasons Crowds Miles Wasting Time Idols Fourth Relevance

Author:Simon Cowell