Distinction Quotes - Page 18

• It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Names

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Eye, Animal

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• Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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• A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Kings, Names, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.66, Rajpal & Sons

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• The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Religious, Race

  Gandhi (Mahatma) (1969). “Hundred years of Gandhi: centenary souvenir, 1869-1969”

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• When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Untouchability, Superiors, Rooted

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• 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

  Life Is, Humanitarian, Religion And Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Tolerance, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Play, Two

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Expression, Giving

  "Harold Ramis, Seeker" by Ray Pride, newcityfilm.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

  Aaron Levie

  Keys, Building, Software

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• There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Motivational, Important, Imitation

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (2010). “Strategic Intent”, p.45, Harvard Business Press

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• It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was that the distinction between truth and other motivations to believe tended to break down. Upon hearing a purported piece of information, the reaction was not 'Is this true?' but 'Why is this person saying this? - What machinations or manipulations are going on here?' The question of truth did not, as it were, have the social space in which it could breath.

  Simon Blackburn

  Motivation, Believe, Space

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• Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.

  Jane Roberts

  Healing, Past, Thinking

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• Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

  John Hodgman

  Smart, Dust, Criticism

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

  John Adams

  Men, People, Foundation

  John Adams (1787). “A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America”, p.159

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• I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

  Joel Robuchon

  Facts, Sensitive, Restaurants

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• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Responsibility, Giving, Justice

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• Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

  John Gay

  Pride, Fool, Claims

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.95

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• What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.

  George Leonard

  Inspirational, Brother, Wall

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• The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.

  Francis Bacon

  Sacrifice, Support, Understanding

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• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  John Locke

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.153, Library of Alexandria

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• There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose. It is the function of the supreme ordeals of life to develop in men this power, to give to their life this distinction, this height of dignity, these vast horizons.

  Felix Adler

  Men, Giving, Acting

  Felix Adler (1956). “Life and destiny”

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• So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it

  Tadashi Shoji

  Powerful, Flower, Grace

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• Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy.

  Shailesh Rao

  Going Away, Want, Matter

  "The ‘Mutual Respect’ That Results When Consumers and Brands Collide". Knowledge@Wharton Interview, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. April 14, 2015.

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