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• It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Music, May, Characteristics

  James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful. Instead of the city of the Violet Crown, a Lancashire village has expanded into a mighty region of factories and warehouses. Yet, rightly understood, Manchester is as great a human exploit; as Athens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Art, Science

  Benjamin Disraeli (1863). “Coningsby, Or, The New Generation”, p.113

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• The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Queens, Math, Doubt

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.18, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been clustered around the nexus of knowledge, communication, and human action.

  Jason Stanley

  Philosophy, Communication, Philosophical

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• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Strong, Believe, Writing

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• It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

  Aristotle

  Men, Inability, Use

  "Poetics and Rhetoric".

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• That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

  John Podhoretz

  Fashion, Block, Snow

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• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  Gary Numan

  Powerful, Hands, Voice

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• Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

  Ethel Merman

  Heart, Voice, Legends

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Italian, Korean Food, Australia Day

  As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

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• I think I have my own sort of distinctive swing, for sure. I think that's something that comes really natural to me, to push against the beat and kind of explore a triplet feel behind everything just to see what that feels like.

  Stone Gossard

  Thinking, Swings, Kind

  "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". Interview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.

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• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Educational, Men, Adults

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  Rachel Cusk

  Important, Fundamentals, Emotion

  "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Giving, Latina

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• Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

  Ruben Blades

  Dancing, Sound, Copying

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• Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.

  Donatella Versace

  Kings, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Yellow, Long, Mad

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2000, Delphi Classics

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• And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania

  Philip Roth

  Reality, Kitchen, Tables

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone call, and of having to compensate - with quite elaborate behaviours = for the sudden half-disappearance of the person we were just speaking to. 'Go ahead!' we say. 'Don't mind us! Oh look, here's a magazine I can read!' When the call is over, other rituals come into play, to minimise the disruption caused and to restore good feeling.

  Lynne Truss

  Real, Winning, Phones

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• In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

  John Grisham

  Voice, Stories, Heard

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• And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Wrath, Suffering

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.

  Philip Yancey

  Church, Trying, Claims

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.56, Image

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• By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

  David A. Bednar

  Unique, Men, Perspective

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• The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Drama, Fall

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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