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What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes… — Mark Twain
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? — John Updike
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt
The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. — Samuel Johnson
Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it,… — Dalai Lama
Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit… — Ralph Marston
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through… — Alexander Pope
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other,… — John Milton
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids… — Socrates
We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference. — Doris Lessing
Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about. — Mukesh Ambani
I thought that from the moment someone else could do the same as myself, there was no difference between the pictures and they should not… — Georges Braque
Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever. — John Ruskin
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. — Rebecca West
The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters… — Warren Spahn

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