Distinction Quotes - Page 4

• In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside. The bravest man is who can see the world without the barrier of the mind, just as it is. It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful. There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior - there are no distinctions.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

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• When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

  Stanislav Grof

  Literature, Psychedelic, Natural

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• A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

  Thomas Reid

  Philosophy, Errors, Doubt

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.224, Georg Olms Verlag

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• The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Hero, Glowing, Differences

  Teresa De Lauretis (1984). “Alice Doesn't: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema”, p.119, Indiana University Press

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• That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

  John Fowles

  Sex, Men, Objects

  1965 The Magus, ch.52.

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• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  Flann O'Brien

  Enough, Said, Clear

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

  Clement Attlee

  Wine, Thinking, Bottles

  'Hansard' 24 October 1950, col. 2705

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• It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Intelligent, Intellectual, Bigs

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• Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

  Alfred Marshall

  Differences, Degrees, Kind

  Alfred Marshall (1895). “Principles of Economics”

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• That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

  Gordon Gould

  Attitude, Doe, Today

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• I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

  Alice Hoffman

  Real, Thinking, Fantastic

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• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  Charles Tupper

  Country, Taken, Rights

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• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  Charles Babbage

  Differences, Tools, Machines

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.12

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• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  Haile Selassie

  Sex, Men, Rights

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Ultimate Success, Going The Extra Mile, Great Success

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• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Criticism, Aversion

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Meaningful, Art, Play

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• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

  L. P. Jacks

  Art, Play, Masters

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• It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Virtue, Hard

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.97, Penguin

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it's still an illness, and there should be no distinction.

  Michelle Obama

  Heart, Brain, Legs

  "6 Times Michelle Obama Stood Up For Mental Health" by Lindsay Holmes, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Graduation, Humor

  "Bad results?" by Nikki Sheehan, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2001.

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• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Success, Greatness, Excellence

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