#distinguish

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

— Andrea Dworkin

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. ↗

— Felix Klein

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