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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Learning
Ambrose Bierce

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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Vision
Arthur C. Clarke

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Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Respectability
Confucius

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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Ideas
Benjamin Disraeli

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Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Failure
Edward Dowden

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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
Research
George V. Higgins

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Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Character
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.
Winners and Winning
Alymer Letterman

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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Medicine
Sir William Osler

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Arts and Artists
Octavio Paz

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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Worry
Jules Renard

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
Money
Romain Rolland

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

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Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
Victory
Jean-Paul Sartre

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A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
Diplomacy
Source Unknown

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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
Bureaucracy
Source Unknown

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

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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Women
William Wycherley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun