The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I'm not going to critique the president's every utterance, but I do think America is exceptional. America is different. We don't operate… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the… — David Lack Copy Share Image
It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“Elsewhere Buton says that the distinction between Autonomists and Consequentialists is a conceptual construct by Tibetans that is not found in India.… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
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Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects.… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in… — David L. Bazelon Copy Share Image
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