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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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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

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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. ↗

— Jim Allchin

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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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