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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sympathy, Feelings, Different

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore

Love, Beautiful, Girl

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader

Door, Republican, Difference

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Jung

Mind, Wrong, Sense

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali

True, Real, Same

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love, Crazy, Children

I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
Mitt Romney

Death, Wedding, Through

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strong, Won, Difference

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. Mencken

Life, Constant, Sharp

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
T. S. Eliot

Christmas, Moving, Taking

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness, Nature, Broken

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Time, Today

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James

Good, Bad, Choice

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Men, Woman

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter Stewart

Knowing, Difference, Ethics

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
Erich Fromm

Sex, Mean, Lovable

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Two, Solitude, Hold

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk

Peace, Men, True

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Change, Humility

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
Erich Fromm

Love, Nothing, Two

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Bill Gates

System, Line, Magic

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Strong, Mind, Able

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Enemy, Long

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel

Fool, Yourself, Doubt

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James

Life, Surprise, Tenderness

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Beauty, Beautiful, Woman

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot

Love, Marriage, Children

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

Rich, Poor, Means

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann

Sunrise, Lost, Two

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas Carlyle

War, Fight, Battle

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