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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction. ↗

— Fernando Wood

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This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. ↗

— William Labov

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This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something. ↗

— Damian Lewis

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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

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Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. ↗

— John Knowles

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