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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.

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The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

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I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

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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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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference.

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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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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

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But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

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If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

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The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

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Indifference is a quarantined difference.

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