Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me… — Matt Tong Copy Share Image
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all… — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle… — Nick Broomfield Copy Share Image
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of course, all people have their own reasons for believing what they do about gender. In my case, in over two decades… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly… — Jerome Cady Copy Share Image
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection… — Anné Linden Copy Share Image
It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her… — Jessie Sampter Copy Share Image
The Germans gathered together ethnic divisions from all over Europe in which men of the same linguistic and cultural background could serve… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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