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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the Lord, in the second or middle heaven love towards the neighbor. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. ↗

— Hans Kung

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Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

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You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago. ↗

— Michael Stipe

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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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