"make all the difference" meaning in English

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      "form": "made all the difference",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1626, Robert Bolton, Some Generall Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God, London: Edmund Weaver, page 17",
          "text": "We are all framed of the same mold, hewed out of the same Rocke, made as it were, of the same cloth, the sheares, as they say, onely going betweene; it is therefore onely the free loue and grace of God, which makes all the difference.",
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        {
          "text": "1734, Alexander Forbes, Essays Moral and Philosophical, London: J. Osborn & T. Longman, Part I, Chapter 12, p. 100,\nTo assert the Superiority of the Human Spirit […] above that of other Animals upon this earth, has been the endeavour of many Persons, who […] have made their System more coherent than those who have endeavour’d to put Men and Beasts upon a level. Some of this last Party indeed acknowledge the advantage that Mankind have from the Frame of the Body and its Organs, which they pretend makes all the difference."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 February 22, Alison Flood, “Diagram prize shortlist points the way to this year’s oddest book titles”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Publishers and booksellers know only too well that a title can make all the difference to the sales of a book […]",
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        "To be a crucial or deciding factor; to have a very significant effect (often a positive one)."
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        "(idiomatic) To be a crucial or deciding factor; to have a very significant effect (often a positive one)."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "make all the difference in the world"
        },
        {
          "word": "make a difference"
        },
        {
          "word": "make no difference"
        }
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        "participle",
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      "form": "made all the difference",
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    },
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 February 22, Alison Flood, “Diagram prize shortlist points the way to this year’s oddest book titles”, in The Guardian",
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