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 | "A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the
affections." | |
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George Eliot
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| "A difference to be a difference must make a difference." | |
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Proverb
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| "A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a
deadline." | |
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Rheta Grimsley Johnson
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| "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." | |
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Unknown
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| "All rising to great place is by a winding stair." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with
reluctance." | |
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Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
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| "And now for something completely different." | |
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Monty Python
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| "Are you worried about pressure? I look at it this way: Pressure is
having to do something you are not totally prepared to do." | |
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Harvey B. Mackay
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| "Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different
result." | |
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Tom DeMarco
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| "Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your
own. You may both be wrong." | |
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Dandemis
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| "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is
impossible for talent is genius." | |
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
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| "Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy
to govern, but impossible to enslave." | |
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General Omar Nelson Bradley
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| "Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose
later on." | |
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Frederic Chopin
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| "Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the
generality of men." | |
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
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| "Food is an important part of a balanced diet." | |
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Fran Lebowitz
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| "Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions,
great or small." | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism
is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express
sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." | |
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Dame Rebecca West
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| "Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness." | |
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Judith Martin
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| "If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein
they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling
in the world." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "In a dark time, the eye begins to see." | |
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Theodore Roethke
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| "In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as
it is to invent." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything,
the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the
long run, the easiest." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native
metal of a man is tested." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble." | |
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Jane Austen
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| "It?s easy to make a buck. It?s a lot tougher to make a
difference." | |
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Tom Brokaw
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| "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting
difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new
wishes and seeing them gratified." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to
his success." | |
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Jim Backus
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| "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous
difficulties." | |
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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| "Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate
your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential
to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and
judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it
requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom." | |
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Dee W. Hock
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| "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties." | |
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Aesop
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| "No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it
very well, ever loses his self-respect." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious." | |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| "Nothing"s ever really changed. What difference does it make whether
it"s the Corporate state or the Nation state? In our struggle for
freedom we still find ourselves fighting the state." | |
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Jay Terpstra
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| "Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his
goal." | |
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E. Joseph Crossman
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| "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall
meet." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "On the other hand, you have different fingers." | |
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Steven Wright
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| "Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the "Titanic" who
waved off the dessert cart." | |
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Erma Bombeck
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| "Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather
than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we
don"t have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get
it." | |
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Greg Anderson
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| "Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not
amidst joy." | |
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Felicia Hemans
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| "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the
latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has
not been caught." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is
the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not
bitter" | |
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Mandie Ellingson
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| "The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great
opportunity is where you are." | |
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John Burroughs
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| "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently
there." | |
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L. P. Hartley
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| "The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can
they suffer?" | |
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Jeremy Bentham
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| "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first
interest; success comes only later." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always
different." | |
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Robert Aitken
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| "There"s an alternative. There"s always a third way, and it"s not a
combination of the other two ways ? it"s a different way." | |
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David Carradine
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| "To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "To safeguard one"s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a
tiresome illness indeed." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "To think is to differ." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician
prescribed because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and
weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust in his skill, and
thank him for his prescription." | |
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John Newton
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| "Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless
you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will
never grow." | |
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Ronald E. Osborn
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| "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all
different and yet the same." | |
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Anne Frank
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| "We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don"t
make us weak. They"re the source of our strength.... The question is not
when we came here ... but why our families came here. And what we did
after we arrived." | |
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Jimmy Carter
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| "We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more
privileges." | |
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Abram Sacher
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| "We usually get what we anticipate...." | |
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Claude M. Bristol
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| "What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have
amounts to much more." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength
requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the
necessity for exertion, a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere
stimulus to men." | |
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Samuel Warren
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| "What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet,
isn"t much better than tedious disease." | |
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George Dennison Prentice
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| "When I decide to be happy, I am. When I allow others to decide
whether I will or will not, I?m usually not." | |
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Andy Hall
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| "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be
free." | |
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Charles Evans Hughes
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| "You don?t get harmony when everybody sings the same note." | |
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Doug Floyd
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| "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull
his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals
here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no
cat." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "You"ve got to take the bitter with the sour." | |
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Samuel Goldwyn
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