Quotes with distinction

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  • Bruce Sterling I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Butch Trucks I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • David Gemmell I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Johnson If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Cahan If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
    The Rise of David Levinsky
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Buddha In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Gerard De Nerval It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Leon Trotsky Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Anatole France Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Albert Einstein Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Abba Eban 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
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ben Casnocha Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Mark Twain The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Arnold The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other men are found seeking after God, while Christianity is God seeking after man.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Albert Einstein The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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