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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. George W. Bush

You Too President Say States Distinctions Honours Those Students Well Well Done Done Who Awards United United States Received

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives. Robert Webb

Men Girl Gender Feminism Distinctions Carry Hating About Adult Absurd Learn Boy Boys And Girls Childhood Lives Challenging

The highest of distinctions is service to others. King George VI

Service Others Distinctions Highest Service To Others

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American. Patrick Henry

Distinctions More Between New Am American New Yorkers

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. Thomas Aquinas

Reality Mind Distinctions Drawn Equivalent Necessarily

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist! Walter Gropius

Class Creative Arrogant Every Imagination Distinctions Guild Lies Between Prime New Without Source Craft Artist Craftsman Essential Craftsmen Then Us Create Barrier Therein Let Us Proficiency Raise

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. Constantin Stanislavski

World Try Beauty Way Distinctions Ranks Run Find Through Push Entry Front Rewards After Your Profession Utmost

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Alone People Voting Long Redistricting Own Group Collaboration Distinctions Easier Compromise Structures Take Allow Divisions Tenure Makes Same Departments Which Turf Produce Root Creates Organizational Congressional Hardened Resist

Death and the dice level all distinctions. Samuel Foote

Death Distinctions Dice Level

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. Thomas Szasz

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. Alfred Marshall

Degree Differences Marked Distinctions Kind Economic Most Terms Chief Again

I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature. Alice Dreger

I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning basic distinctions, such as the distinction between being male and being female, it represents a threat to the social order. Andrew Solomon

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. Arthur Keith

Good Nature Men Too Our Distinctions Good Men Conspicuous Observation Between Discriminate Escape Senses Whether Races Desire Christians

Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic. Bill Bradley

Other Defer Types Distinctions Logic Kinds Some Rational Dividends Simply Like Still Impose Any Tax Interest Gains Capital Capital Gains Inherent Fully Income Why Municipal Bonds

I think what initially attracts many kids to trains are the 'cool' things: strength, size, agency, speed. But trains also operate within a world of systems, schedules, codes, and fine distinctions. Enter the geeks. What I personally love most about trains is that they are transporting, that they take us places - literally and otherwise. Brian Floca

Love Strength World Think Speed Otherwise Distinctions Kids Enter Systems Fine Geeks About Schedules Take Most Also Operate Attracts Within Trains Size Literally Places Personally Agency Us Transporting Cool Many Initially Codes Things

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. David Antin

Distinctions Unsatisfied Between Am Oral Quite Literate

If a scene called for numerous Oompas to join in a narrative song and dance, I would perform the steps for all of them with subtle distinctions of expression and movement. When the images were joined with the help of a computer, I became an entire troupe. Deep Roy

Song Dance Numerous Distinctions Would Entire Scene Join Joined Computer Song And Dance Troupe Perform Steps Became Narrative Were Movement Subtle Them Help Expression Images

Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions. Ellen Key

Great Women Passion Men Ambition Distinctions Small Drives Developed Well Tasks Which Race Social Deeds Works Now Competing Competitors

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie. Gary Sherman

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. Howard Staunton

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