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“The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.”

Should Firsts May Different Attention Journey Offers Travel Mark Climate Productions Various Observation Distinction Traveller

Book:Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates

Source: Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates

“I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.”

Feels Littles Paid Transformation Distinction

Author:Wentworth Miller

“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”

Source Higher Honor Connected Distinction Advances In Science

Author:Isaac Newton

“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”

Age Funny Speak Television Keys Aging Witty Candidates Prose Distinction Birthday 50th Birthday

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.”

Men War Danger Circumstances Distinction Exposed Uniforms Civilians

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.”

Loss Members Congress Distinction Serving Seniority

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.”

Long Energy Nations Known Proud Producers Distinction Texas Innovators

Author:Rick Perry

“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

Artist Class Picks Concerned Distinction Class Distinction

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.”

Years Language Memories Lovers Research Fundamentals Driven Distinction Obsessive Verbs Cognitive Processing Computation Irregular Verbs

Author:Steven Pinker

“There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.”

Fundamentals Strategy Distinction Effectiveness

Author:Michael Porter

“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”

Art Form Social Greater Criticism Enjoyed Enjoyment Distinction Significance Conventional Decrease Aversion

Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.”

Vision Divine Equal Lows Remains Distinction Good And Bad Highs And Lows

Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”

People President Office Corruption Stealing Socialism Distinction Civilized Purses Public Office

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.”

Thinking Feels Real Cities Citizens Distinction New Yorkers

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.”

“Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.”

World Way Trying Running Actors Acting Beauty Fronts Rewards Profession Distinction Entry

Author:Sydney Smith

“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.”

Said Boys Mass Thirds Distinction Grades Priests Desks Garbage Altars Nun Knocked Down Third Grade Garbage Cans

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.”

Thinking Differences Teach Teacher Authority Distinction Word Of God Pastor Called By God

Author:Charles Stanley

“The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.”

People Self Philosophy Whole Individual Deals Modern Authority Collections Distinction Modern Times

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.”

Men Mind Individual Responsibility Moral Society Morality Anger Guilt Democratic Meaningful Punishment Compromise Distinction Collectives Meaningless Individual Responsibility

Book:The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“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.”

Source: The History of the Russian Revolution ...

“Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.”

Real Problem Money Class Criminals Distinction Ethical Amusing Class Distinction

Author:Orson Welles

“The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.”

World Names Lines Conflict Worship Standing Mark Beast Distinction Commandments Requirements Protestants Rebuke Commandments Of God

Book:Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4

Source: Spiritual Gifts Vol 3 & 4

“You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.”

Needs Real Enough Distinction Being Real Believable Believability

Author:Bradley Whitford

“The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.”

Years Firsts Purpose My Own Objects Distinction Parliament Darling

Author:William Wilberforce

“I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.”

Love Literature Wish Sex Change Distinction Behaviour

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

Littles Different States Government Evil Worst Blessing Distinction Necessary Evil No Common Sense

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.”

“Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.”

Men Children Persons Doe Hard School Three Youth Birth Men And Women Adults Following Burden Commit Command Distinction Cradle Maidens

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.”

Age Form Artist Teaching Particular Demand Blind Distinction Conventions Deaf Transitory

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.”

Ifs Men Looks Important Reason Done Care Taken Notes Possession Distinction Stations Bus

Author:John Irving

“So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.”

People Ifs Justice Infinite Innocent Damage Distinction Clash Civilisation Algebra Massacres Savagery Collateral Sophistry Fastidious Collateral Damage

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.”

Long Hands Faces Night Sound Darkness Sun Dog Wind Long Time Rain Standing East Sat Distinction Hats Gray Inexplicable

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.”

Want Firsts Government Lasts Affection Vices Common Sense Former Distinction Latter Wickedness Positively Intercourse Patron Uniting Restraining Punisher

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.”

Ifs Made Together Remember Lying Memories Skins Bones Hated Distinction Loved Ones Foe Mourn Our Memories Graveyard

Author:Steven Brust

“Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”

Choices Animal Unique Capacity Species Distinction

Author:Jared Diamond

“In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.”

Past Values Wish Animal Mystery Standards Acknowledge Manifestation Distinction Abandoned Living Things

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.”

Doe Edges Teeth Insanity Distinction Sanity Elusive Phantoms Deer Razors Hounds Mules

Book:The VALIS Trilogy

Source: The VALIS Trilogy

“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.”

Spiritual Lovers Garden Distinction Mystic

Author:Rumi

“There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.”

Bigs Differences Emotional Serious Lonely Distinction Solitary Guessing Repercussions Being Lonely Confinement Solitary Confinement

Book:How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

“If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.”

Ifs Thinking World Believe Courses Easy This World Contrary Distinction Good And Bad

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be. The distinction was important.”

Important Wanted Brave Distinction

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.”

Reason Home Fall Courses Water Rocks Behavior Complexes Holes Hardest Distinction Conditioning Liquid Crude Scarlet Drop Of Water Wholesale Granite

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Sometimes you find the panel, but it doesn’t open; sometimes it opens, and your gaze meets nothing but a mouse skeleton. But at least you’ve looked. That’s the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don’t, but between those who want to know everything and those who don’t. This search is a sign of love I maintain.”

People Knows Want Real Sometimes Secret Distinction Mice Skeletons Signs Of Love

Book:Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

“Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

Trying Mind Evil Patient Gentle Distinction Good And Evil Be Patient Eccentric

Book:My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo

Source: My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo

“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.”

Ifs Way Able Difficult Simple Clear Wise Adults Philosopher Complexity Distinction Great Philosophers

Book:How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?”

Wells Hurt Mouths Irony Distinction Teens

Book:Faithless: Tales of Transgression

Source: Faithless: Tales of Transgression

“Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.”

Moments Remember Next Realizing Differences Numbers Share Minutes Lovers News Losing Phones Obvious Awful Intimacy Triumph Distinction Flaws Phone Numbers Fatal Flaws Awful Days

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled.”

Looks Dream Respect Jew Realization Distinction American Dream Respecting Others Skin Color Separateness Unfulfilled Dreams Brotherhood And Peace Living The American Dream

Book:All Labor Has Dignity

Source: All Labor Has Dignity