"For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from."
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"Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more."
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"Between yea and nay, how much difference is there?"
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"There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own."
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"The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad. Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night."
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"Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world."
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"If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference."
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"People have power to make a difference in their lives."
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"The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses."
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"Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others."
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"This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are."
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"What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force."
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"If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end."
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"The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence."
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"The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom."
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"The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference."
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"It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences."
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"As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together."
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"Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference."
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"Internal differences within the Nation of Islam forced me out of it. I did not leave of my own free will. But now that it has happened, I intend to make the most of it. Now that I have more independence of action, I intend to use a more flexible approach toward working with others to get a solution to this problem."
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