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#distinction

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There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.


Leslie Fiedler


#american culture #blue #blue jeans #class #clothes

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


E. M. Forster


#concealing #distinction #his #notable #revealing

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.


Gordon Gould


#attitude #basic #between #columbia #days

The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.


Fernando Wood


#black #distinction #fixed #inferior #legislation

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.


Charles Kendall Adams


#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.


John Amery


#any #commence #distinctions #men #open

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.


David Antin


#between #distinctions #i #i am #literate

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.


Clement Attlee


#above #being #bottles #british #bursting

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.


Kenneth Baker


#between #big #distinction #english #french

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.


James Baldwin


#alone #artist #avoid #being #being alone






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