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“I venture to claim two qualifications for the great office which I hold, which to my mind, without making invidious distinctions, is one of the most important that can be held by any Englishman; and those qualifications are that in the first place I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I believe in the British race. I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen.”

Source: Foreign & Colonial Speeches

“The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.”

World Needs Claims Profession Distinction

Author:Rod McKuen

“Immensely clever and libidinously hilarious.The most astonishing thing about Love in a Dead Language is its ingenious construction. Insofar as any printed volume can lay claim to being a multimedia work, this book earns that distinction.”

Book Language Claims Lays Clever Distinction Construction Volume Astonishing Printed Ingenious Multimedia

Author:Paul Di Filippo

“Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.”

Pride Fool Claims Distinction Boast

Book:Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

Source: Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives

“Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.”

Claims Riches Admire Distinction Vulgar

Book:Thrift

Source: Thrift

“An important distinction can be made between religion and spirituality. Religion [is] concerned with faith in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition... Spirituality is concerned with qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, that bring happiness both to self.”

“All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.”

People Believe Long Important Different Speak Claims Distinction Skulls Dialect Nationalistic

Book:The Road to Wigan Pier

Source: The Road to Wigan Pier

“They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.”

Feels Whole Action Natural Pleasure Ought Claims Distinction Reserves

Book:The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist

“If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad that I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.”

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Author:Eugene V. Debs

“This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.”

Men May Age Common Achieve Claims Titles Distinction Common Man

Author:Ayn Rand

“The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?”

Belief Religious Violence Doors Equal Claims Blame Atheist Enthusiasm Distinction Religious Belief

Book:Can Man Live Without God

Source: Can Man Live Without God

“Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”

Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House