Distinguished Quotes
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
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I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
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Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.
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The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.
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Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
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Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.
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Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
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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.
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I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.
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Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
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Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.
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Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.
