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“Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.”

Way Hard Differences Taxes Distinction Coming Out Penalties Pocketbooks

Author:Mike Lee

“Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.”

Kind Term Differences Economic Degrees Chiefs Distinction

Book:Principles of Economics

Source: Principles of Economics

“If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.”

“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.”

People World Action Differences Impossible Failing Acceptance Burden Distinction Apathy Unconditional Acceptance

Author:Arthur Gordon Webster

“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.”

Mind States Age Differences Pleasure Quality Conditions Music Is Seasons Sacred Distinction Productive Temper Secular Anguish

Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion

“It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.”

People Matter Differences Responsibility Entertainment Distinction Mislead

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.”

Men Littles Said Important Matter Seems Differences Roots Hearing Distinction One Man Acquaintance Carpenter

Book:The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

Source: The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source: Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

“Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.”

States Grows Hours Differences Common Watches Taste Judgment Mark Titles Distinction Seconds Temper Smallest Refined Ingenious Cultivation Stationary Hume

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.”

Understanding Differences Deals Difficulty International Distinction Regimes Diplomats Notorious Totalitarian Regimes

Author:Mona Charen

“We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.”

Way Heart May Next Differences Generations Sea Tongue Distinction Next Generation

Book:Historical Tracts

Source: Historical Tracts

“Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?”

“In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.”

Men Wells Made Two Character Helping Used Hours Differences Opinion Watches Expression Drawing Statements Manners Compare Clock Distinction Plates Johnson Brighter Neat

Author:James Boswell

“All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.”

Thinking Men Littles Causes Differences Ability Weakness Importance Infinite Stupidity Distinction One Man Organs Mistaken Ugliness

Author:Luc de Clapiers