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There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Always Cultures Distinguished Just Just One Literacy Many Music One Word Origins Other Poetry Remembers Song Still Them Tribal Where Word

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My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.

~Elias James Corey

Topics: Age Chemistry Completed Distinguished End Illinois Instructor Joined Marvel Roger University Work

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The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.

~Ellen Key

Topics: About Adapted Against Astronomy Conclusions Considered Contains Distinguished Exact Exactly Example Far For Example Intellectual Intellectual Life Life Little Mathematics Most Physics Sciences Themselves Those Thus Too Warning Which Woman Women Would

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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Attributed Autonomy Being Contact Distinguished Environment Immediately Merely Most Others Person Relation Relative Single Subject Which

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The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: According Call Churches Considered Definition Distinguished Evil Given Gods Good Human Majesty Might Must Person Ritual Sacred Sense Serve Something Times Touchstone Transcendental Which Whose Word

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The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

~Eric Sevareid

Topics: Always American American Society Been Change Distinguished Hallmark Most Society

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The Da Jing street market is little more than a few narrow intersections, barely six blocks long. But for a visitor, it is a living, breathing education in Shanghai cuisine, a style distinguished by its thick savory sauces spiked with sugar and soy sauce.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Barely Blocks Breathing Cuisine Distinguished Education Few Little Living Long Market More Narrow Sauce Shanghai Six Soy Street Style Sugar Than Thick Visitor

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

~Felix Klein

Topics: Advanced Been Distinguished Intuition Mathematics Most Rather Rigorous Sense Than Themselves Those Thus Who

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I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

~Frank B. Kellogg

Topics: Accept Cause Chapter Country Development Devoted Distinguished Further Gave Gift History Honor Marks Me Opportunity Value Whose Wonderful World

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The sense of crisis is everything for Trump - even if it's largely invented. His depiction of darkness justifies his candidacy, the need to violently shake the system. His ability to conjure fear is what distinguished him from all those career pols he has vanquished. And it suits his ego.

~Franklin Foer

Topics: Ability Career Crisis Darkness Distinguished Ego Even Everything Fear He Him His Invented Justifies Largely Need Sense Shake Suits System Those Trump Vanquished Violently

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