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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

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 committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Quote by George W. Bush

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

Quote by Jane Austen

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

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