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Quote:The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.[Tom Clancy]

Quote:The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.[Rush Limbaugh]

Quote:Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry]

Quote:It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.[Luther Sutherland]

Quote:Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.[Edmund Burke]

Quote:Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.[George Bernard Shaw]

Quote:The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.[Gloria Leonard]

Quote:The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.[Woody Allen]

Quote:But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.[Oscar Wilde]

Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson]

Quote:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.[Robert Frost]

Quote:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith]

Quote:One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.[Mark Twain]

Quote:What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?[Mahatma Gandhi]

Quote:The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.[Plato]

Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero]

Quote:The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. [Dag Hammarskjold]

Quote:All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. [H. L. Mencken]

Quote:There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. [Salvador Dali]

Quote:Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. [Woody Allen]

Quote:The difference between a drunk and a alcoholic is that a drunk doesn't have to attend all those meetings. [Arthur Lewis]

Quote:The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense. [Tom Clancy]



Definitions of: difference

Definition: The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?

Definition: Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.

Definition: That by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.

Definition: Choice; preference.

Definition: An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency.

Definition: The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.

Definition: The quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.

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