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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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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

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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

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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere. ↗

— Bill Brandt

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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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Art is anything people do with distinction. ↗

— Louis Dudek

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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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

— Sallust

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Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. ↗

— John McCarthy

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