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1 " Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing. "
― Steve Voake , The Dreamwalker's Child
2 " The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason. "
― Adam Roberts , Twenty Trillion Leagues Under The Sea
3 " Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appointing the state as educator of the people. Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school. "
― Karl Marx , Critique of the Gotha Program
4 " I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die. "
― Jon Krakauer , Into the Wild
5 " Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it? "
― Charles Dickens , The Pickwick Papers
6 " No, that's where you are wrong. Your mind was full of sadness and darkness. That is a very different thing entirely. On earth it's nearly impossible to know it, but our minds are not at all who we are. Our brains are just an organ. When we died, our minds died too. All of this, all of what is to come, it's your soul. Our souls never die. They are the very root of who we are, not what we are, but who we are. "
― Kathryn Perez , Letters Written in White
7 " Plan all you want, it is a very different thing to actually kill a person than to fantasize about it. In your fantasy, you have superhuman strength. Or your action takes no strength at all. You just do it, your arms gliding effortlessly through the weightlessness of your dream world. In reality, you have to plunge a knife or pull a trigger. You have to look into the eyes of an actual person. You see their humanity. You have to push past the respect for life that has been drilled into you since before you could talk. I’m not saying it’s impossible. It happens every day. But for normal people who have lived their whole lives as law-abiding citizens, trying to be polite and well-mannered, respectful of their elders and kind to animals, good listeners and good employees; for people who use their turn signals, and hurry to get to work on. time, leave tips for their letter carrier, and put dollars in the Salvation Army’s red bucket, hoping to make the world a little better— killing another human being is not an easy thing. "
8 " To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him. "
― Søren Kierkegaard
9 " To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him. "
10 " A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. "
