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The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.


Maurice Sendak


#bore #death #distinctions #fine #fine art

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.


Tom Stoppard


#between #collections #deal #dissolve #distinctions

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.


Donald G. Mitchell


#coming #country #distinctions #dream #dust

Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.


John McCarthy


#distinctions #hard #make #philosophy

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.


Robert Bork


#assumes #because #decide #disapprove #distinctions

Death and the dice level all distinctions.


Samuel Foote


#dice #distinctions #level

The highest of distinctions is service to others.


King George VI


#highest #others #service #service to others

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

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






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