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"I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may."
"The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world."
"A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall."
"With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way."
"The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference."
"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."
"The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday."
"In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options."
"The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces."
"There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous."
"You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference."
"The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them."
"The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity."
"Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work"
"The difference breeds hatred."
"Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in."
"there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up."
"One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth."
"The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils."
"There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face."
