#distinct

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#attributes #between #classical #conceiving #creative

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#between #circumstances #civilian #danger #distinction

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#both #distinctions #either #false #hard

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. ↗

— Michael Porter

#distinction #effectiveness #fundamental #operational #strategy

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#action #acts #christian #distinctive #does

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity? ↗

— Samuel Butler

#distinctly #excluded #felicity #general #heaven

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. ↗

— Sallust

#envy #gained #honesty #i #methods

I'm distinct, really. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#i #really