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• 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.

  ― Vince Lombardi
  American football player (1913 - 1970)
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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.

  ― Andy Goldsworthy
  British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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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

  ― A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

  ― Tom Bodett
  American writer and actor (1955 - )
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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.

  ― Salvador Dali
  Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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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.

  ― Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

  ― Nelson Boswell
  American author
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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.

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

  ― Martina Navratilova
  American Tennis player (1956 - )
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• The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

  ― Dwight L. Moody
  American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The difference between management and administration (which is what the bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

  ― Robert Heller
  British management journalist, management consultant and author (1932 - 2012)
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• The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.

  ― Bruce Dern
  American actor (1936 - )
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• The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

  ― James Thurber
  American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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• The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

  ― Richard Rorty
  American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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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.

  ― Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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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.

  Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 64

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

  ― Betty Smith
  American writer (1896 - 1972)
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• The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  ― Tom Bodett
  American writer and actor (1955 - )
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• The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

  ― Robert A. Heinlein
  American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• administration
• practitioners
• metaphysicist
• bureaucrats
• superficial
• metaphysics

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