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Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying. ↗

— David Antin

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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little. ↗

— David Chalmers

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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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