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  • Together on the path of love, we can try to make a small difference in someone's life. What else is there to do?

    Chan Khong, Sister (2008). “Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War: Easyread Edition”, p.431, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.

    Gilbert Blane (1821). “Elements of Medical Logick”, p.10
  • The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.

  • Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

    Moses and Monotheism ch. 3, pt. 1 (1938)
  • The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow.

    "Being Digital". Book by Nicholas Negroponte, 1995.
  • If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  • Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

    Life   Wisdom   Stars  
    "Socialism in One Galaxy?" by Nicole Colson, socialistworker.org. September 15, 2016.
  • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

    "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.
  • The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

    Kings   Boys   Law  
    Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics
  • In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

    "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1103b,
  • Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

    Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015
  • Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay aside the small differences and pursue the common objective.

    Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.55, Christian Fellowship Publishers
  • The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.

    "Something Borrowed". www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2004.
  • We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

    Love   Life   Sad  
  • It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

    Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House
  • I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

    "Building a winning boardroom team". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.
  • Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.

  • The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.

  • Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

    "Risk Taking Is in His Genes". Interview with Martin Fackler, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2007.
  • It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

  • There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

  • A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not alone, what could cause a new Copernican revolution, a quantum leap in our thinking and perspective. We would finally realize that we are one mankind and all the small differences which separate humans from each other today-nationality, race, religion-would disappear. Only together can mankind explore the universe, our true home and destiny.

    Home   Destiny   Thinking  
  • It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

  • No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

    Love   Keys   Order  
    "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.
  • The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

  • We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

    Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press
  • In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

  • I love making people smile. I get so much energy through interacting and feeling like I've made a difference, a small difference.

    "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.
  • I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

    "Katherine Boo: Slum dweller" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.
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