#distinguish

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. ↗

— Morarji Desai

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Aaron Allston

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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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In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

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