#distinct

Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different--dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together? ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#dissimilar #fall-in-love #fatal #flaw #fundamentally-distinct

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#any #aspect #cognition #conation #defined

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#age #apt #class #class distinctions #democratic

Death and the dice level all distinctions. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#dice #distinctions #level

The highest of distinctions is service to others. ↗

— King George VI

#highest #others #service #service to others

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. ↗

— Ira Glass

#break #distinct #down #family #into

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

#beings #definite #distinctively #existence #individuals

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#distinct #each #four #individual #lots

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#being #constructed #creator #culture #differences