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- I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only…
- This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would…
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- Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the… — Annie Besant
- Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? — Samuel Butler
- She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was… — John Henrik Clarke
- If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura
- An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in… — Abraham Lincoln
- Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. — Konrad Lorenz
- In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of… — James Clerk Maxwell
- Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- [There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- [P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique… — G. H. Hardy
- When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no… — Edmund Burke