Distinct Quotes
409 Distinct quotes by 352 unique authors
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We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine,…
— Franny Billingsley
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People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this.…
— Don DeLillo
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The widow’s eyebrows raised. “Ye’ve got all these nasty pooches to run around with and ye still might die?†“I’m going to go fight with…
— Kevin Hearne
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Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime...Please, treat your garlic with respect...Avoid…
— Anthony Bourdain
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who he used to…
— David Levithan
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You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your…
— Koushun Takami
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The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because…
— David Wong
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The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
— Russell Means
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with…
— Karl Mannheim
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He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
— Simone Weil
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The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of…
— Charles Bradlaugh
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To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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I thank God for the way he made you, distinct, special and unique. You were not made from a common mold.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked,…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not…
— Ludwig von Mises
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In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As…
— Penelope Lively
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I just believe that young people need to be able to learn how to write in their own voice. Just like a musician, you pride…
— Terry McMillan
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352 authors contributed a total of 409 Distinct Quotes, led by these top contributors: