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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
Patrick Henry
2.
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
Mahatma Gandhi
3.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
Barbara Jordan
4.
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
Ken Keyes Jr.
5.
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
Swami Muktananda
6.
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
Joan Miro
7.
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
Antonin Artaud
8.
The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Lin Yutang
9.
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
George W. Bush
10.
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
Thorstein Veblen
11.
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
Plutarch
12.
Islam religion has no color distinction, we are just Muslims.
Muhammad Ali
13.
I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.
Jean-Baptiste Say
14.
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
Mahatma Gandhi
15.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
Wentworth Miller
16.
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Robert Peel
17.
Theology is Anthropology... [T]he distinction which is made, or rather supposed to be made, between the theological and anthropological predicates resolves itself into an absurdity.
Ludwig Feuerbach
18.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
19.
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
Gregg Braden
20.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton
21.
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.
Pascal Mercier
22.
We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.
Nicholas D. Kristof
24.
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
26.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
Flann O'Brien
28.
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
Robert Frost
29.
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
Marcel Duchamp
30.
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
Edward Tufte
31.
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
William Blake
32.
You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.
Robert Kiyosaki
34.
Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.
Grant Morrison
36.
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
Samuel Smiles
37.
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
Bill Brandt
38.
Art is anything people do with distinction.
Louis Dudek
39.
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much
Whitfield Diffie
40.
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'
Leonard Read
41.
Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.
Mark Twain
42.
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
Robert Fulghum
43.
I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
44.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow
45.
The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
Dale Carnegie
46.
There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
K. D. Lang
47.
There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.
Kevin Powers
48.
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal
H. P. Lovecraft
49.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Herbert Hoover
50.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
Bobby Darin