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Letter "D" » distinction
«The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.»
Author: James A. Michener
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Art of Living, body of work, distinction, excellence, hardly, information, labor, leaving, leavings, leisure, playing, pursues, re-creation, recreation, recreations, the Master, working
«To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living.»
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
(Founder)
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clamour, distinction, Divine love, recognition, sanity, tablet, tablets, The Tablet, wait on
«To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
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Advances, connected, distinction, earthly
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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calls, crime, distinction, ferocity, justice, murder, murdering, sport, sporting man, The Sporting, The Tiger, tiger
«We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.»
«What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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actual, arduous, concerns, distinction, meanness
«We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.»
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