#distinction

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind. ↗

— Washington Allston

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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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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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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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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. ↗