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People and places are the source of my work, both in prose and verse-and this remark is not the truism it seems, for I do not distinguish as sharply between a place and a person as most people seem to do.
Leonard Alfred George Strong
Work
People
Distinguish
Seem
Seems
Both
Remark
Prose
Between
Sharply
Most
Source
Truism
Person
Place
Places
I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.
Marquis de Lafayette
Myself
Army
Trust
Opportunity
Cause
States
Distinguish
Frankness
General
Learn
Trade
Am
Won
Officer
America
Unique
Unique Opportunity
Zeal
Found
United
United States
United States Of America
I simply do not distinguish between work and play.
Mary Oliver
Work
Distinguish
Simply
Between
Play
With Islam, there's the Sharia. There's the Islamic law which prevails, and as long as it doesn't distinguish between God and the state, it's a problem.
Matteo Salvini
God
Problem
Law
Long
Islam
State
Distinguish
Prevails
Between
Islamic
Which
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
Max Lerner
Best
You
First
Before
Whatever
Lying
Late
Distinguish
About
Trivia
Between
Importance
Learn
First Things
Makes
Bed
Prove
Move
Thing
Things
Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.
Michael Shnayerson
Sometimes
Distinguish
Photographic
Only
Knock
Off
Did
Same
Expert
Warhol
Originals
Start
Images
Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.
Michael Wolff
Politics
Complicated
Distinguish
Ultimately
Where
Themselves
Profession
Mediocre
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.
Misha Glenny
Work
Me
Father
Myth
Distinguish
Russian
Writer
Name
Calling
Balkans
Am
His
Michael
Wanted
Created
Translator
Connections
Actually
British
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
Mitch Daniels
Government
Big
Carefully
Distinguish
About
Contempt
Big Government
Skepticism
Should
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Mortimer Adler
Love
Different Kinds
Distinct
Distinguish
Adjectives
Ancient
Must
Kinds
Had
Names
Different
Which
Use
English
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Challenges
Animal
Intelligence
Signs
Animals
Understanding
Distinguish
Kind
Tricks
See
Obeying
Seeing
Some
Remarkable
Simply
Between
Talented
Come
Know
How
Real
Doing
Tests
Commands
Up
Just
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Researchers
Deeper
Things
Two
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
Norman Macleod
Science
Distinguish
Adult
Feign
Grab
Children
Hold
Themselves
Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.
Pete du Pont
Beginning
Down
Assumes
Side
Distinguish
Correctly
Lead
Road
Know
Look
Least
Go
American
Where
Wants
Either
Public
Newt
Landmarks
American Public
Down The Road
Chance
I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.
Peter Matthiessen
Inferiority
Distinguish
Superiority
Between
Terms
Nonfiction
Fiction
Used
Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Love
Drinking
Animals
Other
Distinguish
Madam
Making
Us
Seasons
Thirsty
If we are to rid ourselves of terrorism, we will have to genuinely believe that attempts to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' terrorists are misleading.
Rajnath Singh
Good
Terrorism
Will
Believe
Distinguish
Ourselves
Bad
Attempts
Misleading
Between
Genuinely
Terrorists
Good And Bad
Rid
The disciplined approach to pursuing and selecting the most attractive investment opportunities continues to distinguish ExxonMobil. We are long-term driven, and we're patient. And we're not opportunity-constrained.
Rex Tillerson
Opportunities
Patient
Approach
Distinguish
Pursuing
Selecting
Driven
Investment
Long-Term
Most
Attractive
Disciplined
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain
Life
Saying
Time
Think
Distinguish
Unnecessary
Kind
Able
Outside
Lead
Between
Concerned
Learned
Limited
Politely
Any
Stable
As Far As
Wants
Far
Necessary
Necessity
Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Justice
Eyes
Long
Remove
Enough
Distinguish
Between
Bandage
Unfortunate
Vicious
Should
Her
With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Because as far as your brain's concerned, it is real.
Rony Abovitz
Distinguish
Magic
Leap
Concerned
Because
Real
Brain
As Far As
Far
Your
I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.
Roustam Tariko
Time
Changes
Distinguish
Like
Time Changes
Very
Much
Working
Activity
Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.
Susumu Tonegawa
Life
Day
Events
Face
Think
Later
Distinguish
Able
Various
Day-To-Day
Course
How
Normal
Question
Conditions
Very
Experiences
Reproduce
Interesting
Even
Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.
Susumu Tonegawa
Memory
Difficult
Our
Distinguish
Similar
Almost
Study
Between
Identical
Genuine
Brain
False
Very
Them
Mechanisms
Based
I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.
Tom Perrotta
Together
Eyes
Honesty
Writing
World
Sympathy
Distinguish
Characters
Seeing
Through
Between
Go
Interested
Really
Inhabiting
Two
It's difficult to tell whether people are looking at you because they recognise you from your work or just because you're 6 ft. 3 in. and have the eyebrows of Satan. It's difficult to distinguish between the two.
Will Poulter
Work
You
People
Satan
Looking
Difficult
Distinguish
Recognise
Tell
Eyebrows
Between
Because
Just
Just Because
Whether
Your
Two
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith
Time
Joy
Confused
Everybody
Pleasure
Distinguish
Easily
Only
Between
Does
Am
Very
Maybe
Might
Useful
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