Distinction Quotes - Page 20

• It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

  Adrian Tomine

  Becoming Better, Important, Becoming More

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Class, Paper

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• There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

  Leonard Read

  Needs, Moral, Thievery

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• After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.

  Mark Steyn

  Men, Keys, Civilization

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• It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

  Julian Assange

  Justice, Humanity, Nobel

  "Support NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, says Julian Assange" by Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Important, Tragedy

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• An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Compassion, Self

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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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• The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Men, Firsts

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• We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Our World, Self, Creating

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• The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Scripture, Monk, Holy

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• Unlike furious thin-lipped feminists, I tend not to draw distinctions between men and women, apart from in bed where you really do need to spot the difference.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Men, Differences, Feminist

  "Jeremy Clarkson: TV obsessed with hiring 'black Muslim lesbians" by Steve Busfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2009.

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• I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Herds

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doubt, Sap, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Gratitude, War

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• Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Identity, Sides, Stereotype

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

  Max Blumenthal

  Thinking, Israel, Europe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Debtors, World

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).

  Astra Taylor

  Believe, Silly, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter.

  John Pilger

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  Source: progressive.org

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