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• An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

  Thomas Fuller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

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• Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

  Arthur Keith

  Christian, Men, Race

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Trying, Racist, Firsts

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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Class, Concerned

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

  John Polkinghorne

  Christian, Thinking, Important

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• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Sky

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• Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

  Whitfield Diffie

  People, Professional Work, Musings

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• My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

  Helen Hayes

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.

  Arne Tiselius

  Science, Mind, True And False

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• Art is anything people do with distinction.

  Louis Dudek

  Art, People, Art Is

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• Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Class, Political, Discrimination

  "Trouble and Strife", Issues 13-17 (p. 45), 1988.

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• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, Tasks, World

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• There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Clothes, America, Blue

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• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  E. M. Forster

  Vulgarity Is, Revealing Something, Literature

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 26

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• I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Stars, Law, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, History, Persons

  "An Uncommon Man". Book by Richard Norton Smith, 1984.

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• The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

  John Lennon

  Honor, Crosses, Legion

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• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  Ian Mckellen

  Play, Comedian, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

  Isaac Newton

  Honor, Source, Higher

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• In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

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• We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Loss, Congress, Members

  "Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks to ABC's Diane Sawyer". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Long, Energy

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• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  Harold Pinter

  Real, True Or False, True And False

  Harold Pinter (2013). “Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008”, p.218, Faber & Faber

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Office, President

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

  Sydney Smith

  Beauty, Running, Trying

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