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Make No Distinctions
— Lin Yutang
Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading.
— Margaret Atwood
Food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5
— Frans De Waal
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
— Jonah Goldberg
The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.
— Maurice Sendak
Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
— Timothy Noah
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
— Samuel Foote
Personal development is an ever-evolving process of making more and better distinctions about who you are and what you want.
— Stevie Puckett
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.
— Thomas Paine
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
— Abbie Hoffman
Hate obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible.
— Heraclitus
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
— Mortimer J. Adler
God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society.
— Joseph Campbell
White magic or black, it doesn't make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions
— David Porush
I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.
— Sigmar Polke
Camels have a very democratic approach to the human race. They hate every member of it, without making any distinctions for rank or creed.
— Terry Pratchett
Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions.
— Thiruman Archunan
There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.
— Laura Prepon
The darkness of the world made no distinctions; it entered its palaces as it did its huts.
— Cornelia Funke
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.
— Chiang Kai-shek
There is an order in this world; there are distinctions, there are differences in this world upon whose verge I step. For this is only a beginning.
— Virginia Woolf
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
— Ambrose Bierce
The highest of distinctions is service to others.
— King George VI
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
— Whitfield Diffie
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
— John McCarthy
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Everything looks so much alike that you wonder how people got the idea of inventing names, to make distinctions.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.
— Ken Robinson
All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.
— Margaret Wertheim
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions ...
— Farley Mowat
All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.
— Anna Julia Cooper
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
— Alfred Marshall
The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society
— William Graham Sumner
A squirrel is the same as a can, when there's a bb gun in my hand. Can't you see that I am just a man? With distinctions ... and comparisons.
— Demetri Martin
Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
— Olympe De Gouges
When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
— Mahatma Gandhi
social barriers as artificial distinctions made by the strong to bolster up their weak retainers and keep out the almost strong. Having
— F Scott Fitzgerald
How fine our distinctions when we cannot choose
— Robert Lowell
In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.
— Khushwant Singh
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
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony.
— Alan Macfarlane
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste.
— Keshub Chandra Sen
Hatred obscures all distinctions.
— C.S. Lewis
It took me many years not to make arrogant distinctions between good and bad.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
— Maggie Nelson
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
— Patrick Henry
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
— F. Sionil Jose
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.
— Stanislas Dehaene
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
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— Thomas Aquinas
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
— Albert Einstein
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.
— Mahatma Gandhi
