#distinct

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#common sense #distinctions #fastidious #first #found

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#am #distinctions #fact #food #honored

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#canada #canadian #distinct #fully #great

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#colour #determine #distinction #generosity #his

The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#distinct #goal #government #insurgents #iraq

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#distinction #hand #having #men #most

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again. ↗

— Josef Albers

#basic #cases #color #continually #different

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

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

#fails #left #mark #may #oral

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