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Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much.
by Whitfield Diffie (Scientist, American , born in 1944) keywords: between, distinction, distinctions, make, much, musings, professional, recreational, sharp, some, sort, their, very , work Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
by Abbie Hoffman (Activist, American , born in 1936) keywords: abuse, arbitrary, clinical, distinctions, illegal, legal, medical, often, political, understand , use Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
by Arthur Keith (Scientist, Scottish , born in 1866) keywords: between, christians, conspicuous, desire, discriminate, distinctions, escape, good, implanted, men, nature, observation, our, races, senses, too , whether This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other.
by Wilfrid Laurier (Statesman, Canadian , born in 1841) keywords: administration, any, canadians, country, distinctions, french, governed, had, intention, movement, must, never, organise, other, part, party, policy, questions, simply, those , upon Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
by Alfred Marshall (Economist, English , born in 1842) keywords: again, chief, degree, differences, distinctions, economic, kind, marked, most , terms This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.
by Bill McCartney (Celebrity, American , born in 1940) keywords: affirm, christ, christians, come, distinctions, gathering, jesus, jewish, oneness, our, publicly, roots, time, type , unprecedented 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.
by Donald G. Mitchellkeywords: care, coming, country, distinctions, dream, dust, forever, graves, great, hopes, how, may, proudest, seem, shall, times, where, worldly , your We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
by Pablo Picasso (Artist, Spanish , born in 1881) keywords: between, class, concerned, discriminate, distinctions, find, good, must, out, pick, things, us , where 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.
by Harold Pinter (Dramatist, English , born in 1930) keywords: between, both, distinctions, either, false, hard, necessarily, nor, real, thing, true , unreal I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
by John Polkinghorne (Physicist, British , born in 1930) keywords: also, assimilate, concepts, cosmology, creation, different, distinctions, doctrine, give, maintain, need, resist, science, scientific, scientists, should, sometimes, temptation, theology, think, try , which A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
by Thomas Reid (Philosopher, Scottish , born in 1710) keywords: case, corrected, distinction, distinctions, doubt, entitled, error, even, examine, found, imputed, languages, may, ought, philosopher, philosophy, structure, such, those, vulgar , which 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.
by Thomas Reid (Philosopher, Scottish , born in 1710) keywords: common, distinctions, fastidious, first, found, foundation, granted, languages, mankind, nature, out, proof, sense, setting, structure, surely, takes, too, treating, way , without 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.
by Sydney Smith (Clergyman, English , born in 1771) keywords: after, beauty, distinctions, entry, find, front, into, profession, push, ranks, rewards, run, through, try, utmost, way, world , your Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.
by Howard Staunton (Celebrity, English , born in 1810) keywords: been, confused, constituted, delicate, discouraged, distinctions, excellent, fault, great, learner, manuals, many, openings, otherwise, outset, persons, study, variety , very 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.
by Harlan Stone (Lawyer, American , born in 1872) keywords: ancestry, because, between, citizens, distinctions, doctrine, equality, founded, free, institutions, nature, odious, solely, their, upon, very , whose 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.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) topics: Society keywords: among, because, collective, creates, democratic, distinctions, guilt, individual, meaningful, meaningless, men, mind, moral, now, odious, prefer, punishment, responsibility, unfashionable , which