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“The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.”

Book Young Adults Young Adult Distinction Sophisticated

Author:Ann Brashares

“One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.”

Writing Two Hands Behinds Steps Novel Mystery Position Keys Reader Hero Ideals Suspense Distinction Relative Detectives Mystery Novels

Author:Carolyn Wheat

“Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body, feelings and intellect, would be obliterated.”

Trying Mind Two Feelings Body Would Be Together Intellect Distinction Mind And Body Integrated Soma

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“Just as a moral distinction is drawn between "those at risk" and "those posing a risk", health education routinely draws a distinction between the harm caused by external causes out of the individual's control and that caused by oneself. Lifestyle risk discourse overturns the notion that health hazards in postindustrial society are out of the individual's control. On the contrary, the dominant theme of lifestyle risk discourse is the responsibility of the individual to avoid health risks for the sake of his or her own health as well as the greater good of society.”

“The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. I have no awareness of race or other distinctions at all. In my perceptions, just as I feel my own consciousness in every part of my physical form, I feel you all to be a part of me. Everything that is living I feel within this body. I know the sensations of all. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization. This consciousness is far beyond telepathy. It is awareness of the perceptions of every being. That is the meaning of Christ Consciousness.”

“There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.”

Made Suffering Animal Results Moral Materials Distinction Leather Fur Sentient Beings Suffering And Death

Author:Gary L. Francione

“Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.”

Matter Social Levels Distinction

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“North Carolina is home to some of the largest financial institutions in the country, and a vibrant network of community banks. We're a banking state, and we're proud of that distinction. But we also understand that responsible financial regulation protects consumers and businesses.”

Country States Home Community Proud Protect Responsible Institutions Financial Consumers Distinction Regulation Banking Carolina North Carolina Financial Institutions Financial Regulation

Author:Kay Hagan

“Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”

Literature Distinction Vulgar Revealing Notable Vulgarity Concealing Vulgarity Is Revealing Something

Author:E. M. Forster

“I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.”

World Wells Looks America Democracy Civilization Safe Diversity Command Distinction

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963