"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven.……" — Samuel Butler

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• Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part… — Annie Besant
• She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority,… — 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… — 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… — James Clerk Maxwell
• Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.)… — 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… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• [P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and… — G. H. Hardy
• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we… — Edmund Burke
• A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized… — James Weldon Johnson

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