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Distinction Quote by John Thorn

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“Keep score, which is what the Talmud recognizes as a distinction between work and play that renders a game unfit for the Sabbath.”

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There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

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If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

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My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured…

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More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time…

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I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

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The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

George Gaylord Simpson

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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

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“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a…

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I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

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Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a…

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

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I've always longed for the theatre and acting to be popular. No actor wants to play to an empty house. We only do it…

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