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Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

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I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! ↗

— Donald Fagen

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Nate Silver

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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. ↗

— David Trimble

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Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ↗

— Diogenes

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