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But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either. ↗

— David Sedaris

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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ↗

— Max Lerner

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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. ↗

— Gouverneur Morris

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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ↗

— William Osler

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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