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differences competition world
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money. Benjamin Rush
differences making-a-difference world
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. Bill Bryson
differences people rich
The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear Robert Kiyosaki
differences done records
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference. Beck
differences listening done
They do what they do for money - that's all. I don't even know why you're listening to me. I've done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can't even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is. Dave Chappelle
differences profound way
The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different. David Sedaris
differences economic-globalization internationalism
In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization. David Korten
differences numbers world
Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. David D. Burns
differences interesting surface
Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences. Dave Barry
longer political situation
The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable, Edmund Stoiber
longer minutes normal sort takes wear
I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things. Brittany Snow
longest
I have the biggest and the longest mouth in the world. Everybody's scared of my mouth. Bikram Choudhury
long understanding victory
As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. C. S. Lewis
long enough term
I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work. Cecelia Ahern
long tree savannah
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof? Carl Sagan
long life-is hopefully
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring. Bethenny Frankel
long surfing competing
I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old. Bethany Hamilton
long-ago years ideas
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract. Benoit Mandelbrot
domestic-violence alive might
If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive. Gloria Steinem
domestic-violence demand persons
They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them. Jodi Picoult
domestic-violence abuse faces
Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear. Laura Davies
domestic-violence may stones
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. Eric Idle
domestic-violence assault difficult
Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway. Mariska Hargitay
domestic-violence secret prison
The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release. Joyce Meyer
domestic-violence violence
There's no such thing as "just a domestic". Patrick Stewart
domestic-violence finals patterns
I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship. Leslie Morgan Steiner
domestic-violence violence serpent
...those serpents! There's no pleasing them! Lewis Carroll