Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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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.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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The highest of distinctions is service to others.
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Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
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Hard distinctions make bad philosophy.
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.
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To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against' into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.
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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
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All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.
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One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
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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.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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