Distinct Quotes

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Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes. — Jonah Lehrer
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they… — William Whewell
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping. — Willis R. Whitney
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely… — Thomas Jefferson
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,… — Elbert Hubbard
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious… — James Madison
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. — David Hume
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is… — Charles Darwin
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When… — Paul Cezanne
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. — Charles Darwin
With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,… — Alexander Hamilton
The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the… — Abdelkader El Djezairi
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen

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