Distinct Quotes
409 quotes by 352 authors
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Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks…
— Maurice Samuel
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The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly" in…
— Enoch
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We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political…
— Tim Soutphommasane
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In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining…
— Unknown Author
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Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to…
— George Berkeley
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Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority.…
— Dan Rather
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed.... The…
— Unknown Author
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There are two kinds of airplanes - those you fly and those that fly you . . . You must have a distinct understanding at…
— Ernest K. Gann
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Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those…
— Alice Sebold
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
— David Hume
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There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert…
— Henry Mackenzie
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On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two…
— Charles Darwin
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Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
— Chuck Jones
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For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.
— C.S. Lewis
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If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.
— Walter E. Williams
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If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the…
— Thomas Young
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
— Eric Hoffer
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The question between the materialists and me is not, whether things have a real existence out of the mind of this or that person, but…
— George Berkeley
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The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value…
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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