"The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses"
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"Marriage is just a relationship to me. In my experience, when you've been in a relationship for as long as I've been in one, there's no real difference. It's just a piece of paper that validates what was already real."
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"Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering.""
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"We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world."
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"A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality."
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"That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all, the privileges of the politicians are far greater compared with the ordinary folk than in any other country. The nations that have gone for freedom, justice and independence of people have still freedom and justice, and they have far more equality between their people, far more respect for each individual than the other nations. Go my way. You will get freedom and justice and much less difference between people than you do in the Soviet Union."
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"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."
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"Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image"
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"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."
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"So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great!"
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"I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there."
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"Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?"
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"I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything."
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"Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product."
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"Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. An asset is something that puts money in my pocket. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket."
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"Many times the difference between your accomplishment and your failure is your attitude."
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"You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it."
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"Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks"
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"Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life."
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"By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death"
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