#distinguish

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. ↗

— Alec Baldwin

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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed. ↗

— David Ricardo

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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

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Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished. ↗

— Anne Seward

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