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"We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition."
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
"There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties"
"The Blood Type Diet has made such a difference - not so much to my shape, but to how I feel and my energy levels."
"The fact that you're having disagreements with each other isn't a problem -that just shows that there are some areas of your relationship that need to be worked on. And that's normal. People are different, so of course you're going to run into times where your differences come out and rub each other the wrong way. But what's important is that you both commit to work on those differences until both of you are satisfied. When you do that, you're walking the right road together and over the long-run you'll do just fine."
"The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences."
"Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference."
"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
"You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life."
"A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown."
"Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat. Quite a lot of the differences that make us rich and poor are matters just of luck. To somehow revel in ones privilege would be a mistake. An even bigger mistake would be trying to convert that into a theory that the rich are so much more productive than many of us."
"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences."
"An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character."
"It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window."
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."
"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all."
"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy."
"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
"The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment."
"Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life."
