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Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
John Calvin
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The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
Witold Gombrowicz
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Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
William Merritt Chase
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Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as 'the public.'
Lysander Spooner
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The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.
Eric Sevareid
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau
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James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Roger Ebert
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
Hannah Arendt
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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.
Ambrose Bierce
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
Samuel Alexander
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. Lucas
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We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.
John Flavel
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
W. E. B. Griffin
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In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
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Always to be best, and distinguished above the rest.
Homer
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Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.
Joel Garreau
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished.
Samuel Johnson
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We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.
Lydia Millet
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I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
James Boswell
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When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both - that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy.
Rebecca Goldstein
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God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.
Joyce Carol Oates
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Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
Thomas Jefferson
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Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity
Leslie Orgel