There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.
– Evelyn Waugh
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- You never hear widows voice the sentiment, but I could stave off companionship indefinitely. Sex, not so much. – Abby Fabiaschi
- Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely… – Jonni Gray
- No human can bury their past indefinitely. It’s only a matter of time before you crack. – KA Tucker
- The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. – Virginia Woolf
- The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host. – Gerard de Marigny
- No bow can be strung indefinitely, for it will surely break – Nicholas C Rossis
- When you invest your time you will notice that you are being fruitful and that you are multiplying your life. – Sunday Adelaja
- When you invest your life, you are multiplying it. – Sunday Adelaja
- Life is given to be invested in multiplying – Sunday Adelaja
- The best couples share the load, divide the grief, and add to the peace, thereby multiplying joy. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Never mix negative thinking with negative people. Multiplying negatives, in this instance, won’t make a positive. – Richie Norton
- Intelligence and stupidity have equal chance of taking a man to divinity! The blind nature has no such distinctions. – Thiruman Archunan
- When one attains self-knowledge, distinctions of race and religion vanish. – Abhijit Naskar
- Children judge each other harshly, but don’t make nice distinctions among the grown. – Bill Holm
- White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions – David Porush
- Personal development is an ever-evolving process of making more and better distinctions about who you are and what you want. – Stevie Puckett
- Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. – Stanislas Dehaene
- Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions. – RL Trask
- Hate obscures all distinctions. – CS Lewis
- Our task is not multiplying the number of our church members but making people happy – Sunday Adelaja
- Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I’m a grandfather. Or Dead. – Fred Chappell
- I sighed and deleted the message, imagining the dirty clothes multiplying like rabbits, because that’s what they do when I’m not around. – Alex Owens
- Social Security is neither social, nor secure. – Edw C Young
- Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski