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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself. ↗

— Barbara Sher

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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. ↗

— Diogenes of Sinope

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage. ↗

— Micky Dolenz

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— David Trimble

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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