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The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.

Hans Morgenthau

Simple, Thinking, Evil

Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”

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In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

Confucius

Teaching, Class, Should

Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

Tertullian

Giving, Principles, Scripture

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In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

Wasif Ali Wasif

Unions, Separation, Success And Failure

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Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Christian Dior

Believe, Simplicity, Care

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It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

Andy Hargreaves

Leadership, Learning, Privilege

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When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

Sengcan

Practice, Judging, Benefits

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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.

Blaise Pascal

Beautiful, Exercise, Men

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We shall use the terms morality, behavior, conduct, or constructive action in the same broad way. It may sound strange to speak of the morals of an atom, or of the way in which a molecule conducts itself. But in the last analysis, science can draw no fundamental distinction between the conduct of an animal, a bullet, or a freshman, although there may be more unknown factors involved in one case than in the other.

William Patten

Animal, Sound, Molecules

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Love makes no distinction between man and man, between an Aryan and a Mlechchha, between a Brâhmana and a Pariah, nor even between a man and a woman. Love makes the whole universe as one's own home. True progress is slow but sure. Work among those young men who can devote heart and soul to this one duty - the duty of raising the masses of India. Awake them, unite them, and inspire them with this spirit of renunciation; it depends wholly on the young people of India.

Swami Vivekananda

Home, Heart, Men

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I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

Jennifer Granholm

Wall, Sorry, Kids

"Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

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The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

Frederick Douglass

Color, Differences, Democracy

Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Magazine Articles of Frederick Douglass”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.

David C. Driskell

Art, Girlfriend, San Francisco

Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Ambrose Bierce

Indifference, Indifferent, Sensible

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.105, 谷月社

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry A. Kissinger

Real, Light, Mold

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It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.

Charles Hampden-Turner

Lying, Opposites, Differences

Charles Hampden-Turner (1982). “Maps of the Mind”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

Leon Trotsky

Class, Division Of Labor, Leader

Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.306, Penguin UK

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To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.

Samuel Johnson

Evil, Justice, Principles

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein

Country, War, Class

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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

William Gibson

Grandchildren, Doubt, Computer

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Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is in sacrifice, in self-denial, in humility and in the perfectly disciplined will. This is the distinction between great and little men.

Vince Lombardi

Attitude, Believe, Character

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...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Facts, Illusion

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

Branch Rickey

Winning, Men, Pay The Price

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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Stendhal

Real, Thinking, Said

Stendhal (2012). “The Red and the Black”, p.224, Courier Corporation

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I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

Swami Vivekananda

Religious, Anger, Soul

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.156, Advaita Ashrama

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