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It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.
Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.
At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme.
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.
You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.
Whenever you have to figure out things that aren't explicit, like in salary negotiations, you see differences in how women and people of color succeed.
I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.
I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.
Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue.
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love.
I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor... dirty people leave pizza boxes.
The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.
There is a difference between image and reputation. Image is nice. Reputation is developed over an entire career. Reputation is what I'm searching for.
There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)
Of course, there are the old hardcore teacher types like me who sit around and tell jokes, realizing, what's the difference anyway - it's all timeless.
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
You need to stop caring what people who don't matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing.
Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.
Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.
We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?
When differences of view emerge, as they are bound to do from time to time, they should be resolved privately and whenever appropriately, collectively.
Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.
You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'
In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.
It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.
We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
There is a difference between a job and the promise of jobs, there is a difference between economic development and the promise of economic development.
People will always look different from each other in ways we can't control. What we can control is what we allow ourselves to make of those differences.
It is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.
The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.