#distinguish

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. ↗

— Felix Klein

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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

#enables #flavor #insipid #taste #us

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

— Eric Sevareid

#american #american society #been #change #distinguished

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

— Anne Seward

#being #being happy #content #distinguished #happy

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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