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• The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

  Edward Gibbon

  Two, History, Venus

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.394

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• The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Attitude, Philosophical, Yesterday

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (p. 10), 1961.

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• The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Profound, Perfect

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• To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjöld, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace.

  Albert Lutuli

  War, Men, Skills

  "Africa and Freedom". Albert Lutuli's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1961.

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• I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, Sorry, Party

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• Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Originality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Grace

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• He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.

  Saint Patrick

  Father, Son, Evil

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• Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Long, Substance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.422, Courier Corporation

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• My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Daughter, Mother, Years

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.23, Anza Publishing

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• But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, May, Election

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.42, Letcetera Publishing

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• These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

  Herbert Read

  Army, Groups, Literature

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Simple, Law, People

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

  Bliss Carman

  Being Yourself, Eye, Desire

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Ignorance, Race

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• MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Important, Existence, Imaginary

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.

  Amos Oz

  Book, Stealing, Academic

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Process, Latter, Existence

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sarcastic, Work, Ignorance

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 4, ch. 5.

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Commitment, Men, Violence

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Kindness, Father, Book

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.107, Penguin

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• Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, War, New Day

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• I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

  Moliere

  Literature, Want, Telling The Truth

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