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"I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him." »Herbert Clark Hoover
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"Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction." »Theophrastus
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"I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party." »Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies
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"distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." »George Washington Allston
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"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." »Albert Einstein
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love." »Don Barthelme
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"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." »Albert Einstein
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"What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." »Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
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"Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." »Bruce Marton
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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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"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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"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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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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"Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz
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"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes." »Henry Kissinger
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"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows." »Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
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"No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion." »James Burgh
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'" »Helen Hayes
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." »Helen Hayes
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