#distinguish

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. ↗

— Christie Hefner

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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. ↗

— Nate Silver

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. ↗

— Gouverneur Morris

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I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

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