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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

~Barbara Sher

Topics: Between Beyond Caused Control Distinguish Essential Events Really You Your Yourself

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First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.

~Bud Grant

Topics: Amateur Anything Anywhere Cardinals Color Country Distinguish Dozen Exactly First First Of All Go Know Much Name Professional Purple Say Sports Teams Things Think Those Two Well Where Who You I Think

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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

~Caleb Cushing

Topics: Between Denial Distinguish General Impossible Mind Order Petition Receive Refusal Rejection Right Some Summary

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A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

~Carolus Linnaeus

Topics: Different Distinguish First Glance Globe He Loss Marks Plant Practical Quarters Tell Them Will

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Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Automatic Behavioral Between Candidate Distinguish Emotional Fast Hard Intuitive Likes Mind Often Reflected Reflective Scientists Slow Statistics System Than Think Thinking Trump

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There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

~Charles Babbage

Topics: Calmness Circumstances Criticisms Distinguish Few He May Philosopher Reply Severe Strongly Think Which

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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Alike Also Did Distinction Distinguish Folks Left Make Myself Rush Thought Tried Understood Want Were Who World I Tried

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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

~Chauncey Wright

Topics: Also Among Causes Criterion Distinguish Effects Ends How Know May Means Which

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From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

~Christopher Moore

Topics: Always Beatnik Been Dialect Dickens Distinguish Freaks Generations Hip Hop Themselves Used Way

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

~Comte De Lautreamont

Topics: Action Aim Between Captured Contradiction Distinguish Down Educate Escape Forget Makes Me Mind Myself Nothingness Only Remember Strength Thought Thoughts Times Which Write I Write

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