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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.


John Grierson


#did #discovery #distinguished #doing #exploration

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.


Jurgen Habermas


#distinguishes #familiar #familiar territory #fight #objectives

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#commonwealth #comparison #destined #distinguished #foundation

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.


Christie Hefner


#billy #both #business #career #decisions

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.


Robert Green Ingersoll


#between #distinguish #enough #eyes #her

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.


Vittorio Alfieri


#crime #distinguishes #err #felt #human

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.


Hans Berger


#continuous #curve #distinguish #duration #first

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.


Ambrose Bierce


#distinguishing #ignorance #kind #learning #studious

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.


Max Born


#distinguishes #even #impossible #intellect #possible

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#desire #distinguished #man #most #very






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