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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves. ↗

— Bob Newhart

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The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. ↗

— John Sununu

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Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. ↗

— Paul Horgan

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ↗

— Rebecca West

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People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ↗

— Rebecca West

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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. ↗

— Asa Gray

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