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"One day very soon, we'll be asked: what did we do. And we will say: we did everything we could... we have to... because if we don't there won't be anyone left to ask. We have never faced a crisis this big, that we have never had better ideas to solve. This is our only home. We can choose today to make a world of difference."
"The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it."
"Because of the great differences in our ways of thinking, it is inevitable that we have different religions and faiths. Each has its own beauty. And it is much better that we live together on the basis of mutual respect and mutual admiration."
"To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king."
"[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."
"The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose."
"I delivered a clear and forceful message that although we recognize Russia's intelligence gathering will sometimes take place even if we don't like it, there's a difference between that than either meddling with elections or going after private organizations or commercial entities, and that we're monitoring it carefully, and we will respond appropriately if and when we see this happening."
"As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality."
"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
"What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?"
"We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way."
"Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them."
"There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event."
"Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna."
"I think it makes small difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All that is an empty glorification left for those who live."
"The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring."
"The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter."
"There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool."
"The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation."
"I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people."
