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• There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

  Kevin Powers

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• This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature’s essence.

  William Ernest Henley

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• In Bosnian, there’s no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there’s no word describing that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

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• There isn’t any distinction between a reader and a writer – reading is so much a part of it.

  Dermot Healy

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• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn’t.

  Sam Harris

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• I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

  Fred Hampton

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• Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

  John Hales

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• You can’t tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God… So I think the distinction is that there’s a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.

  Charles Stanley

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• When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer’s mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.

  Maurice Saatchi

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• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can’t quite follow you.

  Brian O'Nolan

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• I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they’ve been on reality TV or something.

  Damian Lewis

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• I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

  Clement Attlee

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• Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

  E. M. Forster

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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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• Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

  Washington Allston

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• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  Abba Eban

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• There are good books and there are bad books, period, that’s the distinction.

  Norton Juster

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• Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

  Oscar Levant

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• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  Jack Cade

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