Distinction Quotes
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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.
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It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way to the surface, having modified the expression, and to some extent, the features, to its own likeness.
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For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle class and wealthy people. Crack, which is used by people in South Central, carries a felony conviction.
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It is in vain that we search for an essential difference between good and evil, for their constituents are the same. The crucial distinction lies in their structure, i.e., the manner in which the pieces are assembled. Evil is disintegration, an angry juxtaposition of alienated opposites, with parts always striving to repress other parts. Good is the synthesis and reconciliation of these same pieces.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
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Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities for corruption.
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Was not the arbitrary distinction between illusion and reality the ultimate illusion itself?
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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
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I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
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The bear would have to be stopped. Stan is just making the distinction that you wouldn’t blame the bear the same way you would blame a responsible person.
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Is the distinction between living for Christ and dying for Him so great? Is not the second the logical conclusion of the first?
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To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
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Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.
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I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
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There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.
