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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
The Rise of David Levinsky -
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
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The definition of throwing your vote away is to go into that voting booth and vote for one of two parties that will not change the direction this country's going in.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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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...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
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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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 64 -
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
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The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
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