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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

~Abbie Hoffman

Topics: Abuse Arbitrary Clinical Distinctions Illegal Legal Medical Often Political Understand Use

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

~Alfred Marshall

Topics: Again Chief Degree Differences Distinctions Economic Kind Marked Most Terms

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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

Topics: Based Biology Categories Consenting Distinctions Divided Fine Incapable Just Men Nature Recognize Say Sex Should Social Sports Think Us Women I Think

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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

Topics: Basic Begin Being Between Comfortable Distinction Distinctions Female Male Most Order Orderly People Questioning Represents Sense Social Social Order Think Threat World You I Think

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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

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

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This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.

~Bill Mccartney

Topics: Affirm Christ Christians Come Distinctions Gathering Jesus Jesus Christ Jewish Oneness Our Publicly Roots Time Type Unprecedented

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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

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

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There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticion - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: Bad Between Boring Distinctions Endless Few Good Instead La Repetitive Routine Very

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For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies.

~Chiang Kai-Shek

Topics: Advanced Been Centuries Chinese Class Democracy Distinctions Even Found Free Many Society

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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

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

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