Distinction may refer to:
- Two, or more, things being distinct from one another
Other articles related to "distinction":
... Another distinction of the town is of having the most aging festival of Maha Pawah Rāna of the whole township on Thidingyut Full Moon Day every year ...
... Results were graded 'Distinction' (1), 'Merit' (2) or 'Unclassified' (U) ... The S level Higher Maths papers were not marked unless at least 75(Distinction) was secured in the A level Pure and/or Applied mathematics papers ... on the paper to be sufficient to secure a distinction (75) ...
... album by British alternative rock/dream pop group Kitchens of Distinction, first released in April 1989 by One Little Indian Records in the UK and A M Records in the US ... from Patrick Fitzgerald gave Kitchens of Distinction their own signature sound ...
... In the 8th century the distinction became part of a struggle for influence at the Chinese court by Shenhui, a student of Huineng ... enlightenment" became one of the hallmarks of Chinese Chán, though the sharp distinction was softened by subsequent generations of Zen-practitioners ... (If a distinction exists) it exists in the fact that the founder of one school is a northern man, while the other is a southerner ...
... In part, he does this by noting that a clear distinction can be made when one is analyzing for each case, including the use of two different approaches of valid cognition ... the ultimate view, pointing out that the distinction between Prasangika and Svatantrika is really one of how one talks to students about conventionalities and not really a distinction of how one ... Further Mipham concludes that Je Tsongkhapa by making a distinction of true establishment is also proposing a Svatantrika approach instead of a truly Prasangika ...
Famous quotes containing the word distinction:
“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.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)