Best Distinguishes Quotations
162 Distinguishes quotes by 143 unique authors
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I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'
— Joseph Heller
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR IN THE FABRIC…
— Stuart Dybek
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When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it…
— Dalai Lama
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The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
— Rollo May
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In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access…
— Lauryn Hill
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Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.
— Jean Berko Gleason
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The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust…
— Sydney J. Harris
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What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited…
— Carl Sagan
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What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along…
— James L. Buckley
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What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues…
— H. L. Mencken
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Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,
— Milan Kundera
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Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
— Marvin Minsky
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What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus,…
— Gordon Clark
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When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
— John Burroughs
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The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to…
— Muriel Spark
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All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
— Herbert Spencer
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My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind…
— Armstrong Williams
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For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not…
— Criss Jami
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I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.
— Charles Richet
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When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it. Every single time you lift off the bone and open the durra…
— Benjamin Carson
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Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with…
— Georges Braque
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