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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.
— Jared Diamond
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
— Benjamin Graham
Never was the distinction between charity and mercy better exemplified than in her.
— Charlotte Bronte
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.
— Nate Silver
I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
— Hans Kung
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
— Bill Brandt
Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.
— Ambrose Bierce
I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.
— Trevor Noah
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
— Ken Keyes Jr.
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
— John Major
God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.
— Paul Crouch
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
— George W. Bush
He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.
— Meister Eckhart
But, as Einstein once said, "For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent."5
— Brian Greene
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.
— Pankaj Mishra
Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
— Abdus Salam
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
— Jane Fonda
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
— Marcel Duchamp
In order to understand what happened, we'll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.
— John Hadac
Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.
— Laozi
I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
— Joely Fisher
While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
— Lowell Thomas
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
— Thomas Fuller
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
— William Gilmore Simms
While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.
— Max Heindel
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
— E. M. Forster
Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
— Samuel Smiles
The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
— Swami Muktananda
I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There is, in practice, no such thing as autonomy. Practically, there is only a distinction between responsible and irresponsible dependence.
— Wendell Berry
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
— Leslie Fiedler
Unfortunately, natural language often makes a clear distinction between member and class difficult.
— Paul Watzlawick
What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
— Robert Kazinsky
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.
— Kathleen Kennedy
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
— William Wilberforce
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
— Quentin Crisp
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
— Barbara Jordan
The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I'm not a gentleman, I'm a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well.
— Stephanie Laurens
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
— James Madison
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
— Baruch Spinoza
Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless.
— Gregory Maguire
The distinction between government, industry, science and medicine have become blurred.
— T. Colin Campbell
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
— William Blake
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
— Dennis Miller
Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.
— Dean Koontz
This distinction was very important to him: His mother did love him but not enough to save him.
— Walter Mosley
It is an understanding of what you can be the best at. The distinction is absolutely crucial.
— James C. Collins
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man.
— John Calvin
My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.
— Janet Echelman
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
— Charles Caleb Colton
All sin without distinction - is lawlessness.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Gautama Buddha
The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection with others.
— Anne Linden
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.
— Joseph De Maistre
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
— Mark Haddon
There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.
— Brian Whitaker
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life
— Miyamoto Musashi
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.
— Thorstein Veblen
IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.
— Lawrence Wright
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
— John Hales
Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
— Hannah Arendt
The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth
People make distinction between innocent and not guilty
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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
— C.S. Lewis
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
My father - the late Madhavrao Scindia - was clear about the distinction between being 'loving' and 'strict.'
— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ...
— Farley Mowat
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
— George Bernard Shaw
Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
— Samuel Johnson
Or perhaps the distinction between the two wasn't so fine, between the man-made monster and the man made monster.
— Wildbow
In extreme cases of perfectionism, there is no distinction between judgment of one's work and one's sense of value as a person.
— Neil A. Fiore
Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
— Marshall McLuhan