#distinguish

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! ↗

— Donald Fagen

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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play. ↗

— Emily VanCamp

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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. ↗

— Voltaire

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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences. ↗

— James Buchan

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Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? ↗

— W. L. George

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