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distinction
«Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Education,
Entertainment
| Keywords:
distinction, entertainment
«A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.»
« I am saying something about the ineffable. I am saying something about the ultimate mystery. You can understand it, yet you can never understand it totally. It is elusive, it escapes. It is within reach, but it is not within grasp. You are always coming closer and closer to it, but you never arrive. And the day you arrive, then you are no more there; the distinction between the seeker and the sought disappears. Then you are it. That art thou -- then you are it! »
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
arrive, closer, coming, disappears, distinction, elusive, escapes, grasp, ineffable, mystery, seeker, sought, The Ultimate, thou, totally, ultimate
«A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same indivi»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
directly, distinction, exclusion, in turn, methods, painters, personally, preferred, purely
«An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplish, determination, distinction, invincible, The Invincible
«GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Advances, distinction, grammar, grammars, self-made, The Path, the self, thoughtfully
«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.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
and then, believe, create, distinction, distinctions, East, East Is East, East of, In the, minds, no., no, of her own, of their own, on her own, out, outs, own, people, sky, their, Them, then, there, there is, There is no, to be, true, West
«Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, characters, distinction, eminence, equality, fathers, hundred thousand, idiots, income, inequalities, inequality, merit, mothers, ordinary people, spoiled
«I am in You,You are in Me,There is no distance or distinction.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
am, distance, distanced, distinction, From a Distance, In Me, I am, There is no