Distinction Quotes - Page 4

• I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

  David Antin

  Unsatisfied

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• Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

  David Antin

  Meaningful, Children, Sight

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• A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Giving, Atmosphere

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Play, Roles

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• The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Children, Crazy

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• Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

  John George Nicolay

  Men, Gains, Firsts

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Hate, Men, Genocide

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• There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Good Book, Periods

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• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  Walter Lang

  Ideas, Scripture, Progressive

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• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Giving, Temptation

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• Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

  Ernestine Rose

  Sex, Party, Rights

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• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  Charles Tupper

  Country, Taken, Rights

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• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  Charles Babbage

  Differences, Tools, Machines

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.12

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• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  Haile Selassie

  Sex, Men, Rights

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Ultimate Success, Going The Extra Mile, Great Success

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• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Criticism, Aversion

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Meaningful, Art, Play

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• It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Virtue, Hard

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.97, Penguin

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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

  L. P. Jacks

  Art, Play, Masters

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

  Michelle Obama

  Heart, Brain, Legs

  "6 Times Michelle Obama Stood Up For Mental Health" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Graduation, Humor

  "Bad results?" by Nikki Sheehan, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2001.

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• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Success, Greatness, Excellence

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