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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

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It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but that's how I view it. ↗

— Evan Davis

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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. ↗

— Alfred Stieglitz

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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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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

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