"The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction."
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"Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction."
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"The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along."
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"IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not."
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"It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."
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"The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction."
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"Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions."
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"The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat."
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"Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste."
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"Hatred obscures all distinctions."
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"If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for."
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"Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman."
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"I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life."
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"In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of."
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"We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction"
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"Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out."
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"Could you tell night from day? No, I regard all such distinctions as logically impossible."
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"Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates."
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"He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God."
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"Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction."
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