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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.
Carolus Linnaeus
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 K. Simpson
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
Norman Macleod
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?
Thomas Day
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
Johannes Stark
By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?
Chauncey Wright
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
John Byng
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
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Quintilian
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
Diane Wakoski
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.
Moshe Katsav
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
Mary Oliver
I try to distinguish my characters from each other.
Lucy Liu
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.
Micky Dolenz
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain
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