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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Man
Every
Way
Distinguish
Details
One-Man
Only
He
Another
How
Same
Died
Ends
Lived
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Wisdom
God
Change
Courage
Grace
Changed
Other
Distinguish
Give
Accept
Cannot
Which
Us
Should
Serenity
Things
The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
Ellen G. White
Great
Impossible
Will
Before
Our
Distinguish
Sight
Marvelous
Except
Open
Counterfeit
Delusion
True
Perform
Soon
Between
His
Antichrist
Closely
Scriptures
Them
Us
Holy
Holy Scriptures
Resemble
Works
Last
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
Andrea Dworkin
Buy
Wine
Difficult
Distinguish
Rapist
Seduction
Bothers
Bottle
Often
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
Andrew J. Bernstein
You
Yourself
Goals
Stress
Setting
Setting Goals
Dramatically
Distinguish
Ability
Having
Pushing
Perform
Between
Deadlines
Reduce
Stimulating
Stimulation
Anxious
Upset
Which
Frustrated
Capacity
Your
Need
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
Education
Worth
Reading
Distinguish
Unable
Worth Reading
Able
Vast
Read
Produced
Population
The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.
India Arie
Jokes
Words
Power
Subconscious
Distinguish
Accepts
Hears
Just
Sarcasm
When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
Nate Mendel
Positive
Result
Flu
Other
Virus
Distinguish
Able
Lead
Between
Test
Tests
False
Conditions
Itself
Person
HIV
Pregnancy
Shots
Many
Including
Multitude
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
Stokely Carmichael
Distinguish
Corrupt
Guns
Put
Leaders
Dogs
Africa
Them
Uniforms
Certain
Shoulders
Hard
We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.
Voltaire
Distinguish
Must
Silent
Between
Deceive
Being
Speaking
Reserved
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Danny Meyer
Great
Mistakes
Few
Those
Distinguish
Restaurant
Well
Makes
How
Itself
Handle
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Diogenes
Wise
Distinguish
Counselors
Generally
Takes
Leaders
Wise Person
Because
Person
Them
Themselves
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Victory
Defeat
Distinguish
Detail
Longer
We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.
Jean Henri Fabre
Will
Herd
Distinguish
Vulgar
Within
Which
Us
Start
Thanks to Allah, I trust myself to distinguish between right and wrong.
Mohammad Amir
Myself
Trust
Allah
Thanks
Distinguish
Wrong
Between
Right
Right And Wrong
When listening to politicians, distinguish certain words. Look out for the expansive use of 'terrorism' and 'extremism.' Be alive to the fatal notions of 'exception' and 'emergency.' Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
Timothy D. Snyder
Angry
Terrorism
Words
Listening
Politicians
Extremism
Alive
Distinguish
Out
About
Vocabulary
Emergency
Exception
Look
Expansive
Patriotic
Certain
Use
Notions
Treacherous
Fatal
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
Love
Good
You
Quality
Women
Distinguish
Civil
Breeding
Good Breeding
Hardly
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
Antony Beevor
Work
Adding
Later
Distinguish
Follow
Pottery
Material
Conduct
Original
Paintings
Code
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success.
Ben Miller
Success
Myself
Jokes
Comedy
Thought
Everyone
Distinguish
Telling
Degrees
Alternative
Doing
Just
Differing
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
You
Sports
First
Country
Think
Say
Those
Distinguish
Exactly
Purple
Color
Name
Know
First Of All
Well
Amateur
Go
Where
Anything
Anywhere
Much
Who
Professional
Teams
Dozen
Things
Cardinals
Two
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
Mind
Slow
Think
Thinking
Distinguish
System
Statistics
Intuitive
Purer
Emotional
Between
Likes
Scientists
Trump
Reflected
Reflective
Than
Behavioral
Candidate
Often
Automatic
Hard
Fast
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
Myself
World
Thought
Alike
Distinction
Distinguish
Tried
Folks
Rush
Also
Make
Understood
Were
Left
Did
Want
Who
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.
Cristina Saralegui
Work
Best
Woman
Distinguish
Between
Being
Professional
Function
Play
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
Daniel Goleman
Life
People
Benefits
Better
Father
Everyone
Distinguish
More
Between
Motivation
Brain
Get
Manager
Being
Aside
Skills
Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.
David Hewson
Noise
Distinguish
Unable
All-Around
Only
Although
Deaf
Around
Sounds
Hear
Left
Anything
Ear
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
Diana Gabaldon
Art
Great
Science
Great Art
Chaos
Distinguish
Out
Visual
Ability
Written
Whether
Patterns
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