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And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania

Philip Roth

Reality, Kitchen, Tables

Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

Vincent Van Gogh

Yellow, Long, Mad

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2000, Delphi Classics

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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Aristotle

Men, Inability, Use

"Poetics and Rhetoric".

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Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

Jayne Ann Krentz

Strong, Believe, Writing

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"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

Erin Morgenstern

Air, Hands, Scar

"The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Benjamin Disraeli

Beautiful, Art, Men

Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

Taisen Deshimaru

Buddhist, Attitude, Opposites

" Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development" by Patrick McDermott, (p. xix), 2002.

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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)

Carl G. Fisher

Future, Hard Work, Pride

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...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.

Lynne Truss

Real, Winning, Phones

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In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

John Grisham

Voice, Stories, Heard

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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

Philip Yancey

Church, Trying, Claims

Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.56, Image

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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

Alexander Smith

Strong, Character, Race

Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.38, tredition

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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Oliver Stone

Cutting, Editing, Able

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While we may continue to use the words
smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
of those who believe in a single general
intelligence has come to an end. Brain
scientists and geneticists are documenting
the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

Howard Gardner

Smart, Stupid, Believe

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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Bill Veeck

Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.

Donatella Versace

Kings, Men, Rocks

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

George Edward Woodberry

Art, Drama, Fall

George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

David A. Bednar

Unique, Men, Perspective

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The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian.

James Stuart Stewart

Christian, Jesus, Character

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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Northrop Frye

Art, Law, Elements

Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.215, University of Toronto Press

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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

Ronald Reagan

Bible, God, Religious

United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

Abraham Lincoln

Loyalty, Men, Important

Attributed in W. T. Roche's address at Washington, Kansas, April 9, 1942; "Congressional Record", April 15, 1942, vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A149), 1942.

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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

Anna Garlin Spencer

Children, Ignorance, Growth

Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all moments are; it is past, like every moment in the next moment. And yet it is decisive, and filled with the eternal. Such a moment ought to have a distinctive name; let us call it the Fullness of Time.

Zadie Smith

Character, Past, Names

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.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

Liona Boyd

Music, Interesting, Originals

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