Best Distinctions Lines
164 Distinctions quotes by 144 unique authors
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All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are…
— George Orwell
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Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a…
— Cassandra Clare
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural,…
— Andre Gide
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All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the…
— Leila Aboulela
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The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.
— Saul Berman
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their…
— Aristotle
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God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common;…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but…
— Ralph Barton Perry
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To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow…
— Joan Didion
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
— F. Sionil Jose
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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
— Timothy Noah
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Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
— Nancy Gibbs
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Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they…
— Tecumseh
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Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
— John McCarthy
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But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no…
— Thomas Reid
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This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
— Bill McCartney
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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings:…
— Howard Staunton
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All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
— John Amery
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This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great…
— Donald G. Mitchell
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I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are…
— Joel Robuchon
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