"Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself"
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"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
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"There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while."
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"Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war."
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"It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb."
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"Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being."
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"When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them."
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"I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest."
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"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
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"The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
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"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."
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"That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness."
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"Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity."
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"Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . ."
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"If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other."
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"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."
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"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."
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"God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink"
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"I see no difference between Islam and Islamism. Islam is defined as submission to the will of Allah, as it is described in the Koran. Islamism is just Islam in its most pure form."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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