"There is probably no oral society that fails……" — David Antin

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in… — Charles Babbage
• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and… — Charles Kendall Adams
• I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people. — John Banville
• Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. — Bruce Barton
• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to… — William Bartram
• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment… — Walter Benjamin
• In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same… — James Buchan
• To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I… — George W. Bush
• We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. — George W. Bush
• God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of… — Nicolas Cage

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