"I've known straight and gay people all my life. I can't tell the difference... But I'd never marry a guy I didn't like."
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"Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers."
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"Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future."
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"Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith."
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"Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world."
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"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad."
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"That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual."
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"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."
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"It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world."
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"The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow."
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"Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger."
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"It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that."
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"What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference."
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"I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high."
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"Haven't you got any romance in your soul?" said Magrat plaintively. "No," said Granny. "I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference."
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"I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts."
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"No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke."
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"Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face."
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"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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