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Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. — Mary Shelley

It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart. — William Wilberforce

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. — Diogenes

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error. — Toni Morrison

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. — David Lean

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real. — J.L. Austin

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow. — Mahatma Gandhi

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. — Ambrose Bierce

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. — John Ruskin

One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results. — Matthew Stewart

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them. — Ambrose Bierce

The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes. — Peter Sunde

Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love. — Philip Yancey

The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial. — Deborah Harkness

Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian. — Matthew Henry

Humans believe in nothingness, in zeros. It is one of their distinguishing traits. They keep inventing nothing. Forerunners know otherwise. — Greg Bear

If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it. — Jonathan Edwards

But as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction. — Clive Barker

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls. — Robert Benchley

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. — Nora Ephron

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which. — Kevin Kline

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man. — Farley Mowat

My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress. — Jane Birkin

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders. — John Mott

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

the public entertainment of any period distinguishing the period as clearly as its so-called politics, — John Irving

Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life. — Billy Graham

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! — Donald Fagen

As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back. — Sue Grafton

The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. — George Orwell

The distinguishing characteristic of the techno-thriller is technical detail. — Edward M. Lerner

Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board. — Michael Perlis

Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait. — John Fowles

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business. — Peter Drucker

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope. — Mary Szybist

As I have heard it put, a critical thinker is good at distinguishing gold from bullshit — Howard Margolis

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction. — Nic Pizzolatto

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man. — Mencius

It is a distinguishing feature of natural therapies that they are straightforward and reliable enough to safely do on your own, at home. — Andrew Saul

The reason there was no name for such distant relatives was because sane people would have no interest in distinguishing them from anyone else. "Once — Greg Egan

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening. — Kim Stanley

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas. — Andy Stanley

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. — Craig Venter

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing
characteristic. — Oscar Wilde

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. — Nate Silver

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. — Darin Strauss

What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.
'Reverence,' he replied. — Elizabeth Goudge

Wisdom, which is the habit of distinguishing appearance from reality.) — Peter Kreeft