Distinction Quotes - Page 7

• Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.

  Hudson Stuck

  Alaska, Feet, Mountain

  Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”

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• I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Anger, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.156, Advaita Ashrama

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• Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Dying, Firsts, Christ

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• Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Congress, Grown Man

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• Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Race, Clothes

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Levels, Matter, Social

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• North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Home, Community

  "Don’t Filibuster Cordray" by Kay R. Hagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  Interview with Imre Salusinski in "Criticism in Society", 1987.

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• Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, People, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.

  Daniel Pipes

  Strong, Islamic, Law

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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• Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

  Nick Denton

  Collaboration, Should, Reader

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• My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Girlfriend, San Francisco

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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

  Edward Tufte

  Simplicity, Subtle, Clear

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