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"Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath."
"There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough."
"Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither"
"Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid."
"We can change the world and make it a better place. It is in your hands to make a difference."
""I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?""
"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
"Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character."
"Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief."
"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."
"It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything."
"If you're holding on to an offense, then you haven't forgiven the person who hurt you. Unforgiveness finds excuses to talk about what people have done to us, and we'll tell anyone who will listen. There's a difference between sharing your testimony to help someone and talking about what's been done to you because you are angry about it."
"Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference."
"I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian."
"Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do."
"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is."
"There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty."
"...the soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world."
"The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level."
"I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel."
