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"Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?"
"The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy."
"There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak."
"Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth."
"Embracing uniqueness and showcasing the beauty of our differences is what I am all about so the fact that my words and image can impact positive change is a perk of this job I never expected I would have."
"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."
"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live."
"It's time to put our differences aside and find ways to work together to move Wisconsin forward."
"You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated."
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room."
"Know what the difference between hitting .250 and .300 is? It's 25 hits - 25 hits in 500 at-bats is 50 points. There's six months in a season, that's about 25 weeks. That means if you get just one extra flare a week - just one - you get a ground ball with eyes, you get a dying quail, just one more dying quail a week ... and you're in Yankee Stadium."
"I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action."
"If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference."
"We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor."
"Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience."
"The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward."
"It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."
"You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation."
"One person of integrity can make a difference."
