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So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction. Morley Safer

News Sometimes Distinction Only Miss Between Audience Does Editors Passes Crap Information Much

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city. Nathaniel Parker Willis

Distinction Thousand City Ten Upper Among Present

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life. Neil MacGregor

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent. Nick Szabo

Strong Law Smart Made Analogy Software Our Minds Distinction Independent Rigid Physical Laws More Various Tend Tends Contacts Between Dry Wet Flexible Code Based

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history. Norman Davies

History Club Distinction See Between Academic Which Popular Belong

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. Norton Juster

Good Books Distinction Bad Period

As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other. Omari Hardwick

For myself, I warmly thank the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Chemistry for this mark of their approbation and for an award which confers the highest distinction that a scientist can achieve. I am greatly beholden also to my sponsors and supporters. Robert Robinson

To be fair, my analysis failed to spell out Obama's first-term accomplishments, although I did acknowledge his 'enormous skills' and tried to focus readers on the distinction between good and great presidencies. Ron Fournier

Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer. Russell Smith

Good You Criminality Distinction Possibly See Some Mentality Writer Between Hindrance Without Artistic Being Disgusting Story Little Personally Create Fascination Wickedness Compelling

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. Sallust

Honesty Envy Distinction Methods Won Which Gained Them Toils Therefore

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value. Samuel Alexander

Word Value Sense Action Defined Distinction Definite Though Mental Properly Real Nor Any Real Sense Aspect Even Element Cognition

When it came time to take a job, I had the distinction of joining the smallest company of any graduate in my class. I left to become only the fifth full-time employee of HAL, and when I told my father this, you can imagine, it was not the happiest moment in the history of my family. Satoru Iwata

Time Family History You Class Father Job Become Distinction Only Joining Take Had Smallest Hal Employee Came Left Graduate Any The History Of Happiest Fifth Full-Time Moment Company Imagine

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus. Subramanian Swamy

Old Distinction Monuments Ancient Restored Only Never Years Escapes

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. Teresa de Lauretis

Culture Human Being Hero Differences Active Distinction Constructed Mythical He Principle Male Subject Human Being Creator

There's a difference between world-class fighters and club fighters. It's similar to the distinction between a Grammy Award nominee and a guy who sings in Holiday Inn cocktail lounges. Thomas Hauser

Club Cocktail World-Class Distinction Similar Guy Between Nominee Sings Difference Grammy Holiday Fighters Who Award Inn

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is. Tom Cavanagh

We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a thriving middle class. You look at the G.I. Bill after the war - it was an investment in our service members who had served this nation with distinction. Tom Perez

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