#distinct

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ↗

— Robert Browning

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If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

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I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. ↗

— Helen Clark

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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

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I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

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Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently. ↗

— Joely Fisher

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Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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

— Jonah Goldberg

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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. ↗

— Asa Gray

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