"The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men."
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"Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world."
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"The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer"
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"You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you."
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"To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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"Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree."
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"I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America."
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"A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal."
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"Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the virtue of a city-state that its children be virtuous, and its women too. And it must make a difference, since half the free population are women, and from children come those who participate in the constitution."
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"Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole."
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"...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences."
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"It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia."
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"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
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"Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat."
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"And it is a very important thing to be and do, if not the most important 'cause how you interpret a story can then make the difference. So it is a very powerful thing to be. And when misused, it's very sad."
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"Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem."
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"The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination."
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"I will act as if I do make a difference."
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"An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter."
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