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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 economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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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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There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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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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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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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 mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends? ↗

— Chauncey Wright

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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