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Quotes About Discrepancy

I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some kind of adverse reaction.
~ Gillian Anderson
When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.
~ Shannon L. Alder
When what you value and dream about doesn't match the life you are living, you have pain.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.
~ Michael Parenti
I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
~ David Prowse
The place did kind of resemble a locker room if locker rooms were gorgeous and smelled good.
~ Suzanne Collins
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
~ Erno Rubik
it is easier for your brain to detect differences rather than absolutes
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
qué humanista no desea minimizar la discrepancia entre los seres humanos?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
those hidden asymmetries that do not immediately come to mind
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Just like the income of the driver compared to that of bank employee.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.
~ Charles Ludlam
the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained. This dichotomy, although not on the level of Stalin's Soviet Union or Hitler's Nazi Germany, is nevertheless present in American culture and getting worse. The gap between who we are and who we think we are is steadily expanding.
~ Chris Hedges
To say that merit may be the same is not to say that productivity is the same. Nor can we logically or morally ignore the discrepancy in the relative urgency of those who want their shoes repaired versus those in need of brain surgery. In other words, it is not a question of simply weighing the interest of one income recipient versus the interest of another income recipient, while ignoring the vastly larger number of other people whose well-being depends on what these individuals produce. If
~ Thomas Sowell
Q&As covered my fave color (purple), my fave shows (Family Ties and Cosby), my height (5? 7?), weight (130 pounds) and eye color (hazel). They also printed false information. One said my parents were a psychologist and a newspaper reporter. Sure, my television parents held those careers—my real parents were a math/P.E. teacher and a housewife/manager (of me). I was supposed to be the coolest kid on the planet, but no one knew what a dork I was.
~ Kirk Cameron
The proposal is not well received, because people are attached to local time. In 1883, a compromise is reached with the idea of dividing the world into time zones, thereby standardizing time only within each zone. In this way, the discrepancy between twelve on the clock and local midday is limited to a maximum of about thirty minutes. The proposal is gradually accepted by the rest of the world and clocks begin to be synchronized between different cities.
~ Carlo Rovelli
What We Know Versus What We Do
~ Carol A. Tomlinson
He was gorgeous on the outside but a train wreck on the inside. I could never understand why he did not see himself the way everyone else did. Brian started Monmouth College the following
~ Carol Cooper
That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
~ George R.R. Martin
But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.
~ Emilie de Ravin
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.