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Letter "D" » distinctions
«The highest of distinctions is service to others.»
Author: King George VI
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distinctions
«The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes»
«Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
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Punishment
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collective, democratic, distinctions, guilt, odious, unfashionable
«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.»
«The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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analysis, distinctions, in the last analysis, rest on, separating, social class, social classes, The Social
«The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittenly conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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Society
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abiding, abolish, characteristic, crushed, distinctions, drudgery, high society
«Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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artificial, community, community service, distinctions, geography, history, ideal, imposed, indivisible, In Training, service, trains, transcend, transcended
«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.»
«The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths. I attach myself to the multitude, not because they are voters and have political power; but because they are (human), and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. . . . Self-culture, the care which every (person) owes to (oneself), to the unfolding . . . of (one's) nature. . . .»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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attach, distinctions, human culture, political power, prizes, unfolding, vanish
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