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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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The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
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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.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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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.
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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.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
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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) -
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 -
The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
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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.
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