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If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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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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We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage. ↗

— Micky Dolenz

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ↗

— Edward Dowden

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. ↗

— Jules Renard

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