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"I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge." »Seneca
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"One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed." »Author Unknown
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"Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals." »Beaumarchis
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"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world." »Siddharth Astir
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"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage." »Ronald Reagan
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"Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter." »G.K. Chesterton
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"What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation." »Nikos Kazantzakis
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"Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." »Alan Simpson
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"Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness." »Robertson Davies
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"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end." »Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
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"The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference..." »Adam Smith
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