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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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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

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

— David Antin

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ↗

— Jane Austen

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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

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all. ↗

— Abba Eban

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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into. ↗

— Ed Bradley

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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

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