Quotes: Difference

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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher (1803-1882)

Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Swiss author and dramatist (1921-1990)

Music is the tool to express life – and all that makes a difference.

Herbie Hancock

American jazz pianist and composer (born 1940)

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari’a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

King Hussein I

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

American Protestant theologian (1892-1971)

There’s no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.

John Bolton

There’s a difference… between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.

Tom Leykis

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

Leonard Woodcock

I’ve got the greatest job in the world. There’s no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people’s lives. It’s a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

American businessman and politician; 108th mayor of New York City

So why in the world would anyone support the unethical, failed use of embryonic stem cells instead of the ethical, successful use of adult stem cells? Because they do not know the difference.

Virginia Foxx

United States Representative from North Carolina since 2005

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