#distinct

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

— Albert Einstein

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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

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being. ↗

— John Grierson

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Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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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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I like business and personal life to be distinct. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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