#distinction

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

#complex #defined #distinction #element #meant

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#distinction #future #illusion #only #past

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

— Joely Fisher

#awarded #because #college #distinction #finish

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. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

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. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#believable #distinction #enough #necessarily #need

I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#anything #distinction #fetus #happens #harm

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity. ↗

— John Hales

#god #remains #still #unity #yet

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#arbitrary #clinical #distinctions #illegal #legal

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#between #both #cloth #concerned #distinction

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#depression #distinction #ever #had #him