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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Quote by Charles Babbage about tools, limits

The pursuit of science does not, in England, constitute a...

The pursuit of science does not, in England, constitute a distinct profession, as it does in many other countries.

Quote by Charles Babbage about country, science

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

Quote by Lester Bangs about real estate, things

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction...

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Quote by Bruce Barton about chance, talent, man

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.

Quote by George W. Bush about students, contentment

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who...

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Quote by George W. Bush

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Quote by St. Francis Of Assisi about treasure, sublime, glory, poverty, sun, name, order

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and...

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Quote by Jane Austen

This idea that males are physically aggressive and...

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about idea

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed...

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, judges, people, public, rightness, good, good luck

But if he does really think that there is no distinction...

But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vice, virtue

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words, i can't quite follow you.

Quote by Flann O'Brien about word, contentment

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Quote by Thomas Paine about thinking, mind

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about civilization, circumstances, danger, man, war

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Quote by Johannes Brahms about music, mind, rightness, god

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