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• 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

  Inspirational, Peace, Women

  Marian Wright Edelman (1987). “Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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• All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Oneness, Secret Love

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.136, New World Library

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• One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

  Jeff Bridges

  Knowing, America, Goal

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• I think that the celebrity is a really important thing, because we have the voice that's recognizable, that can educate people to make a difference and empower them to make a difference, and to also get things in motion with the people in charge that can effect change.

  Alyssa Milano

  Power, Thinking, Voice

  "CNN Saturday Morning News", www.cnn.com. November 29, 2003.

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• My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be satisfied that at least I tried. I know I can make a difference, even if it might only be a small one.

  Maisie Shiell

  Children, Health, Goal

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• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Family, Beautiful

  "Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents". Book by Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (p. 144), 2004.

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• It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.

  Bob Proctor

  Life, Motivational, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 24, 2016

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• Make A Difference Day is a great way to introduce kids to the rewards of volunteering. It's fun, it's focused and it's empowering to know that millions are motivated to do the same.

  Kate Snow

  Fun, Kids, Volunteer

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Volunteer

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• For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

  Bob Riley

  Pride, Race, Long

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• But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Years, Groups, Study

  Mankind Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 2 (p. 231), Winter 1998.

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• I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

  Alanis Morissette

  Making A Difference, Trying, Plight

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• Can you tell the difference between them?

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Banjos

  "G20 Summit: Prince Philip's 'Joke' About World Leaders at Barack Obama Meeting". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 02, 2009.

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• There are always a half-dozen things that make 80%of the difference. Only SIX things!

  Jim Rohn

  Half, Dozen, Six

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• The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Freedom, School, Toss

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.244, University of Toronto Press

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• If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Freedom, Caves, Should

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• Being different is ... interesting; there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution; and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.

  Edward Albee

  Reality, Interesting, Being Different

  Edward Albee (2007). “Seascape: The Entire Appalling Business”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, People

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• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Relationship, Truth

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• I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

  Thomas Paine

  Change, Freedom, Equality

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.222, Ravenio Books

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• Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Views, Diversity

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “40 Key Questions about Our Foreign Policy: Answered in Important Addresses and Statements Delivered Between 1941 and 1952”

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• No two people have the same reality

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Reality, Individual Differences

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 26, 2016

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• Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

  Sargent Shriver

  Peace, Powerful, Simple

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• Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• As a new mother, I want to give my children the best start in life but millions of children affected with AIDS don't live with such certainty. We can all do something to give them a future worth living for. We can make a difference in a child's life by joining with UNICEF to ensure that mothers and children are given the treatment that they deserve, in order to live a life free from HIV and AIDS.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Mother, Children, Order

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