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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of distinctions in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of distinctions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of distinctions in a Sentence

  1. Antoine De Saint-Exupery:

    One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

  2. Bill Clinton:

    If he wants to engage in personal attacks from the past, that's his prerogative. You know -- so be it, i'm going to draw distinctions between where I stand and where he stands when it comes to equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage ... protecting a woman's right to make the most personal health care decisions.

  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

  4. Thomas Paine:

    Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

  5. Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test:

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

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