#distinction

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#all day #been #being #day #distinction

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#between #candidate #distinction #key #only

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#education #revolution #change

Don’t you get it? There is no other you. Out of the six and a half billion people on earth, not a single one of them has had the same experiences in life that you have had. None of them share the exact same passions and struggles. None of them have lived your life. None of them. You are the product of you, and nothing else. Every decision you have ever made over your entire life has led you exactly to where you are right at this moment. Simplified… You are you because of you. I am me because of me. And everybody else is everybody else because of what they did to get there. Because of their own choices. Because of their own paths. There is no “normal” because there isn’t a single common trait shared by “everyone”. There is nothing that everyone is doing or that everyone is. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#average-people #distinction #life #normal #normal-life

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. ↗

— John Searle

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Christians should be cultural and intellectual thermostats, exulting in opposition, iconoclasm,and balancing insights. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#distinction #love

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. ↗

— Iris Chang

#class #class distinctions #country #course #distinctions

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. ↗

— Helen Clark

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