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distinguish
«Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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bothers, bottle, distinguish, rape, raped, rapist, rapists, seduction, seductions, wine bottle
«This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error»
«We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
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common man, demands, distinguish, excellent, former, latter
«They can rattle off the Manhattan telephone directory unerringly time after time, which no human can do, but they cannot begin to distinguish one face from another, as babies can do»
Author: Lee Dembart
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directory, distinguish, rattle, rattle off, telephone, telephone directory, Time After Time, unerringly
«There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.»
«The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move»
«MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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An Ancient, art museums, attest, attested, attesting, attests, Brune, come in handy, distil, distinguish, Egyptian, engaged, exhibit, flock, formerly, gratifying, grind, levity, modern medicine, money supply, mummies, mummy, physic, pigment, pigments, plunder, respecting, respect for the dead, rhyme, shrunken, sinner, supplying, The Limit, The Mummy, tomb
«Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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calve, calved, calves, chicken farm, costly, distinguish, farm, human society, The Farm, troublesome
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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achievements, distinguish, distinguished, jest, jesting, note, Real Character, sieges, small person, The Siege, vices