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

— Edmund Burke

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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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