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• Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Struggle, May

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “Works”, p.184

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• The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

  Rene Magritte

  Feelings, Looks, Mystery

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• The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

  Eric Sevareid

  Hallmark, American Society, Has Beens

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Light, Merit

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• The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Country, Fire, Blood

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

  John George Nicolay

  Men, Illinois, Careers

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early.... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

  John Lee Mahin

  Children, Clever, Names

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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.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Names, Ideas

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• The most wonderful thing of all is that the distinguished Lutheran and Calvinist theologians who belong to our order really believe that they see in it (Illuminati) the true and genuine sense of Christian Religion. Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

  Adam Weishaupt

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  People, Choices, President

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.277, Penguin

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• Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Vegetables, Fuel

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4619, Delphi Classics

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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 Crowe Ransom

  Fall, Objectivity, Style

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• Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Math, Needs, Ethics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press

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• That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, Country, Science

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).”, p.1

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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.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Criticism, Body

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Cities, Enthusiasm, One Thing

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• I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

  Petrarch

  Country, War, Book

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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Anxiety

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• PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Blood, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Violent, Used

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

  Carl Jung

  Art, People, Life Is

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.113, Psychology Press

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• It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Criticism, Ridiculous

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.238

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