Distinction Quotes - Page 6

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Cass Sunstein

Moments, Rejects

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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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During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners.

Nelson Mandela

Government, Years, People

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

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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 mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.

Forrest Gander

Book, Prose Poetry, Sea

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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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Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

Frank E. Gaebelein

Mean, Rocks, Greek

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The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

Frank E. Gaebelein

Names, Greek, Trying

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Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.

Townsend Harris

Children, Doors, Together

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We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

Joseph Campbell

Two, May, Definitions

Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.89, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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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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I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers.

Albert Einstein

Appreciation, Mean, Giving

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.21, St. Martin's Press

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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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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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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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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

R. C. Sproul

Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Dennis Miller

Country, Party, Dignity

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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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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

Aaron Scharf

Photography, Art, Past

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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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Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Edward Tufte

Simplicity, Subtle, Clear

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