Quotes 17221 till 17240 of 25371.
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The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
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The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
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The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
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The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.
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The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.
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The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
Source: The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921 -
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
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The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...
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The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy - when properly aged.
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