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• One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

  Sengcan

  Moving, Perfection, Anxiety

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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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• The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" [the whole is larger than the part] may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable consequence of the concepts "totum" and "pars". Unfortunately, however, this "axiom" is used innumerably often without any basis and in neglect of the necessary distinction between "reality" and "quantity", on the one hand, and "number" and "set", on the other, precisely in the sense in which it is generally false.

  Georg Cantor

  Reality, Hands, Numbers

  "Cantor's Grundlagen and the paradoxes of Set Theory". Paper by William Tait, www.researchgate.net. June 2001.

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• I get the greatest joy from just doing anything, being an actor. Doing music, and doing what I love to do. I don't make a huge distinction between comedy and drama. I think the whole point is just trying to be as honest, from moment to moment, as you can be. If you're honest about the material, and the material is ridiculous, then you're in a comedy.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Thinking, Joy

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• There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live longer than those used for meat, but they are treated worse during their lives, and they end up in the same slaughterhouse after which we consume their flesh anyway. There is probably more suffering in a glass of milk or an ice cream cone than there is in a steak.

  Gary L. Francione

  Meaningful, Animal, Glasses

  Gary L. Francione (2009). “Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation”, p.108, Columbia University Press

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• The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, Class, Office

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.

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• Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you're not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Everyday, World, Way

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• I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Made, Goods, Circulation

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.86

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• No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

  William A. Henry III

  Party, College, Achievement

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.169, Anchor

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• The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Block, Character

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Autobiography of John Stuart Mill”, p.270, The Floating Press

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• Men must always have distinguished (e.g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters the first things and the right way the only source of knowledge was hearsay.

  Leo Strauss

  Eye, Men, Use

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

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• Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  India, English Education, Curse

  Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to welcome him, April 12, 1870.

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• When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.

  David Bentley

  Looks, Answers, Kind

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• Art is universal. It unites mankind in common brotherhood.  As a missionary of civilization, its message is both to heart and mind.  Distinctions of tongue or boundary lines disappear before the power of truths, which, like the rainbow, charm by the beauty of variegated hues, or, combined with light, illuminate the universe.  Moreover, art is the connecting link in the chain of great minds.  Through its language, thought appeals to thought, and sympathy echoes feeling.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Light, Civilization

  James Jackson Jarves (1855). “Art-hints: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting”, p.10

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• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

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• Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Lines, Politics

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1986). “Democracy and Economic Power: Extending the ESOP Revolution through Binary Economics”, p.16, BookBaby

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• Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Men, Animal

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.145, TAN Books

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• Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the truth, once you have become consciousness itself, then you go beyond all such distinctions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Lineage

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• There are views. And what we see in a view is not necessarily what is in the view, all that is in the view. We have to separate, to some extent, the perceiver from that which is perceived or we have to lose all distinction whatsoever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Loses, Mysticism

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• I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Real, Believe, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

  Karl Barth

  Recognition, Infinite, Eternity

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

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• Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Country, Opportunity, America

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• Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.

  Fanny Kemble

  Oneness, Heaven, Division

  Fanny Kemble (1882). “Records of Later Life”

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• The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Excellence, Pursuit, Vocation

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