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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

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That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. ↗

— John Fowles

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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction. ↗

— John Lennon

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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

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The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. ↗

— Dick Morris

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