Quotes with difference

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  • Marian Wright Edelman We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Cardinal de Retz Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Toni Morrison What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Seneca What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Kahlil Gibran What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Brendan Behan What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
    The Complete Plays
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Euripides When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Audre Lorde When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Kin Hubbard When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Virginia Graham When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
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  • Thomas Wilson When we attend a funeral, we are apt to comfort ourselves with the happy difference there is betwixt us and our dead friend.
    Maxims (1781)
    Thomas Wilson
    English bishop and writer (1663 - 1755)
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  • Benjamin Watson When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When your heart speaks to you about what you need to do to sustain life on this planet, listen to it, make a difference, and be an inspiration for generations to come. Be inspired by people like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeve, Albert Schweitzer, Helen Keller, and many others.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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