- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distinguishing Quotes
Distinguishing one thing from another proves harder than expected across these quotes. One reflects on appearing suited for an action role despite no prior training, another questions society's ability to separate fiction from reality, and a further voice raises the real difficulty of telling apart two similar medical diagnoses.
Distinguishing quotes explore the challenge of clear judgment across culture, medicine, and perception. For a related theme, see Education quotes.
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- Obsession
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling people more about yourself and distinguishing yourself from your opponent - they're both essential parts of communicating with voters.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mass of Venom. I mean, he's like a big, foreboding, physical presence. Actually, let me correct myself - the eyes, the tongue, the mouth, those are his most distinguishing traits, and so making those look as photoreal and true to the comics as we possibly could was super important to me.
- Compromised
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the most important and distinguishing property of new media is interactivity. But how many people can actually create interactive games, animations, or simulations? Not very many. So, in my mind, very few people are truly literate with new media.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020