Difference Principle

Famous quotes containing the words difference and/or principle:

    “The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.”
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    “I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)