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Class Distinction is what will eventually destroy you.
Source: White House not looking for 'soft landing' for Paterson 2009
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Distinction is a relative term, I think, not an absolute one.
Awards: who needs 'em? Roger Sutton 2005
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That this Distinction is very necessary, and keeps us from falling into Extreams on either Hand, whereof the one is Ranterism, and the other gross Ignorance, by which the Glory of the Divine Attributes is obscured and darkned.
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692
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"Distinction" -- Mrs. Durrant said that Jacob Flanders was "distinguished - looking."
Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911
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At first, I wanted to attempt a more detailed history of who calls The Distinction into existence but I realized it would take too much reading for the short amount of time that I had.
swoonrocket jms 2008
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My general feeling is that The Distinction is a problem.
swoonrocket jms 2008
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The Distinction, which is here made between moral and natural Necessity, the Doctor thinks sufficient to silence all
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For the Circumscription of a thing, is nothing else but the Determination, or Defining of its Place; and so both the Terms of the Distinction are the same.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Five Beechwood students were recognized as AP Scholars with Distinction, which is granted to students whose average score on all AP exams taken is at least a 3.25 and who had a score of 3 or higher on five or more AP exams.
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Six people were inducted into the Genesis Education Hall of Distinction, which is housed at the Stanley Center of the Arts. They are:
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