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In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. ↗

— Voltaire

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The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures. ↗

— Ellen G. White

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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery. ↗

— John Grierson

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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. ↗

— Vittorio Alfieri

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Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. ↗

— Max Born

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred. Private Bills deal with specific individuals, corporations, institutions, and so forth, as distinguished from public bills which deal with classes only. ↗

— Howard Coble

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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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