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"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."
"To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite."
"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
"Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same."
"There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people."
"Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions."
"One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature."
"We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not."
"As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail."
"In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference."
"There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!"
"Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference."
"The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States."
"In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world."
"My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about."
"The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable."
"There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people."
"There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in."
"Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world."
"What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre."
