#distinguish

I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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

— Voltaire

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We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

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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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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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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are. ↗

— John Cleese

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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? ↗

— W. L. George

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