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#distinction

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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

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 more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy


Gregory B. Sadler


#christian-philosophy #distinctions #intellectual-life #philosophy #religion

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.


Criss Jami


#creative #different #difficulties #distinction #envy

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

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

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.


Charles Kendall Adams


#amount #attains #determines #distinction #doing






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