George W. Bush Quotes, Differences Quotes, Criticism Quotes

There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

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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)

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

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We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

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The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

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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.

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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