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In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at… — Martin Van Buren
The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows… — Gardiner Spring
A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason… — Winkie Pratney
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict… — Nate Silver
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
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. — Wilhelm Wundt
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda… — Michael Crichton
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man. — Mencius
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain.… — Michael Sandel
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… — Ambrose Bierce
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin
Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out… — Phyllis McGinley
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
Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on… — Jerry Bridges
I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,… — Thomas Jefferson
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it. — Blaise Pascal
People who do not succeed have one distinguishing trait in common. They know all the reasons for failure, and have what they believe to be… — Napoleon Hill
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which. — Kevin Kline
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is… — Judah Smith
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude… — Timothy Garton Ash
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
In distinguishing between Islamic teachings and social taboos, we must remember that Islam forbids injustice; Injustice against people, against nations, against women. It shuns race,… — Benazir Bhutto
The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man. — Farley Mowat

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