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Related My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g... GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a... GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER There is only a little difference between a man & a woman,but that little difference makes a very bi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is very little difference between men and women in space. HELEN SHARMAN Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing an... MEG CABOT There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The li... W. CLEMENT STONE There is a big difference between listening to an interesting story and recognizing an important one... LYSSA DANEHY DEHART Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expr... RAUL CASTRO There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U... ANGIE KARAN There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems! SEAN CONNERY There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R... DEYTH BANGER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredien... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is h... N. SCOTT MOMADAY The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy. THOMAS ARNOLD The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy THOMAS ARNOLD The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy. THOMAS ARNOLD The greatest thing in life is finding someone who knows all about you and your mistakes, and still s... DHARM BABU It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN At the top level of international competition, there is very little difference between the various j... ANJU GEORGE At the top level of international competition, there is very little difference between the various j... ANJU BOBBY GEORGE All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference betw... MAIMONIDES William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another. KINKY FRIEDMAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference bet... STEVEN PINKER Life is an audition. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop ... PENELOPE FITZGERALD There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius ha... SOURCE UNKNOWN Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one. NOW IS GOOD What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come ne... KHALIL GIBRAN What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come ne... KAHLIL GIBRAN Selection is one of my favorite parts of the festival. It is very exciting seeing what is out there. RICK WINSTON Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION There's very little difference between the two certifications. And a tsunami is a very rare event - ... BILL SAMMLER There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the b... ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the b... ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is hard to say with any confidence...there is a very small difference between winning and losing. DEAN BARKER There are certain resemblances between Iceland and the Anglo- Saxon nations, but perhaps an importan... STEPHEN LEWIS There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes ... MADAME DE MAINTENON There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes ... FRANCOISE D'AUBEGNE MAINTENON When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th... CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori... TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I’m saying primitive bec... ABHIJIT NASKAR Music is my life. ROBERT ILER In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. MANFRED EIGEN In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But, in practice, there is. MANFRED EIGEN In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. YOGI BERRA Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pa... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE There are certain resemblances between Iceland and the Anglo-Saxon nations, but perhaps an important... STEPHEN LEWIS There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. G. K. CHESTERTON There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In my work as an educator in the past 15 years, what I see is a trend: At one point, we were really ... DONNA JOHNSON There is a difference between love and to be in love. Just like there is a difference between a diam... CORTNIE GOODNIGHT Honesty is very sexy. VALERIE BERTINELLI In time of war there is a unification of interests, especially if the war is fierce; but in time of ... BERTRAND RUSSELL What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striv... E. M. CIORAN There are those who advocate, and those who do. I'm not trying to slight my peers, but there is ... JON BON JOVI Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is wha... SARAH STEELMAN The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading betwe... SHANNON L. ALDER This is a very important part of our financial markets in this province, and Alberta is obviously a ... SHIRLEY MCCLELLAN For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because ... GUSTAVO DUDAMEL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep!
it covers a man all over, thought... CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British r... MARIO TESTINO Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man.... SRI AUROBINDO The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a... MAHATMA GANDHI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Music is my life. It is sacred. JIMMY CHAMBERLIN I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important. YAO MING Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work ... COLIN BAKER My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, &... MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool. DIOGENES OF SINOPE What is the difference between an amateur and a professional?
One of them is predictable. VICTOR BLAZEVIC My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all. MARCIA CLARK There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems! SEAN CONNERY There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little... W. CLEMENT STONE There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little ... W. CLEMENT STONE There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little... ROBERT COLLIER One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between th... ROBERT BRESSON One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between th... BERTOLT BRECHT Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference bet... LUCY POWELL There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference i... PAUL HAWKEN But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. I... DEYTH BANGER Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. ENOCK MAREGESI There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little ... UNKNOWN and don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly h... LARRY WALL I love everything. The way she strokes her earlobe when she's thinking. The way she chews her pen wh... KIKI ARCHER This is a lot of very harsh sounding words that have very little bite. But there is a sense what the... GERSHON BASKIN Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. THOMAS JEFFERSON When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as
much difference between what he appe... JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference ... PLUTARCH
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