Distinction Quotes - Page 20

• You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Average, Risk, More Money

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• Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.

  Andrew Weil

  Profound, Vision, Alive

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• I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Herds

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doubt, Sap, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ambition, Successful, Independence

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Gratitude, War

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• Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have a definite material identity. The classifications, the categories, the stereotypes, and the images are on one side, and the material pictures, statues, texts, and so forth are on the other.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Identity, Sides, Stereotype

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not even sure there is a clear distinction between "spirits" and "extra-terrestrials". At least I think extra-terrestrials may be able to slip in and out of, around and between dimensions, including the dimension we relate to as ours.

  Susan Schneider

  Thinking, May, Able

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Doe, Fiction, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, Kids, Race

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• Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

  Max Blumenthal

  Thinking, Israel, Europe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Debtors, World

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).

  Astra Taylor

  Believe, Silly, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It wasn't a direct route. I began as a freelance reporter. That's an important distinction, because people who rise through the ranks of The New York Times become vetted, conditioned, harassed, and shaped by the institution. That never happened to me.

  Chris Hedges

  New York, People, Important

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• It's quite clear that Gore won most of the votes. I think the accurate description for them is a military plutocracy. Having lived and worked in the United States, I must add that I don't want to make too much of the distinction between the Bush regime and its predecessors. I don't see a great deal of difference.

  John Pilger

  Military, Thinking, Differences

  Source: progressive.org

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• Journalists don't sit down and think, "I'm now going to speak for the establishment." Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions, and one of the most potent assumptions is that the world should be seen in terms of its usefulness to the West, not humanity. This leads journalists to make a distinction between people who matter and people who don't matter.

  John Pilger

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  Source: progressive.org

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• The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.

  Celeste Ng

  Differences, People, Saws

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all.

  Paul Fry

  Deployment, May, Methodology

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Believe, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.

  Tim Crane

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Trying, Comedy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I actually do see rock and roll as pop music. I think the distinction I was making was that I was going out of my way to have a very consistent approach to production, where nothing kind of punctures the reality - or, I guess, the fake reality - of the album and what you're listening to from beginning to end.

  Dan Bejar

  Reality, Thinking, Rocks

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• We have to make a distinction between members of the Jewish community who sincerely are trying to follow the laws, statutes and commandments of God in their covenant relationship with Him, but among them are those who say they are Jews and they are not. And this is why the scripture refers to them as the Synagogue of Satan because their work is an evil work. They are doing exactly what Satan is supposed to do - which is to spread evil, not to contain evil to himself but to spread evil to others and make others deviate from the laws, statutes and commandments of God.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Law, Evil, Community

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

  Matt Tong

  Art, Lows, Understood

  Source: pitchfork.com

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