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"There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"Whatever is not forbidden is permitted."
"In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged."
"The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible."
"I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases"
"Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination."
"There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!"
"There's so much one person can do, and so many ways they can help make a difference. It just takes one person to help someone to a better life."
"Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him."
"When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark" . . . If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
"In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all."
"I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference."
"When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference."
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand."
"Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force."
"The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart."
"There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it."
"But there is a difference between playing well and hitting the ball well. Hitting the ball well is about thirty percent of it. The rest is being comfortable with the different situations on the course."
