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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.

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Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

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Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

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Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

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Indifference is a quarantined difference.

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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

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The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

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The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

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It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

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The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

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Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.

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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

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You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

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