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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.
Karl Philipp Moritz / Author
Abbey
Church
House
Numbers
Views
Westminster
Chimney
Distinguish
Number
Round
Houses
Plainly
Presented
Seemed
Smaller
Tops
Tower
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.
Isaac Newton / Physicist
Difficulty
Observation
Particular
Senses
Apparent
Bodies
Discover
Distinguish
Immovable
Indeed
Motions
Parts
Performed
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
Yochai Benkler / Author
Legal
Administrative
Legitimacy
Precedent
Professionalism
Accountable
Agencies
Democratically
Distinguish
Politicians
Judges
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan / Novelist
Baffled
Belief
Cities
Existence
Fashion
Police
Provision
Reality
Complex
Distinguish
Expert
Insulated
Neither
Nor
Sources
Spectacle
Systems
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My parents were part of a crowd that was attached to all the different navies stationed in Malta. When they would have parties in each other's houses, I would get taken along, and that's where I heard all this great music. I didn't distinguish particular styles; it was all music to me.
Robert Palmer / Singer-Songwriter
Great Music
Heard
Particular
Taken
Attached
Music Great Me
Distinguish
Houses
Parents
Styles
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There is often little to distinguish what Beijing wants from what Canada's foreign affairs mandarins want out of the Canada-China relationship, which is in any case rarely even close to what Canadians want - like some demonstrable public benefit for once, the opinion polls consistently show.
Terry Glavin /
Beijing
Canada
Consistently
Foreign Affairs
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Affairs
Benefit
Canadians
Case
Distinguish
Rarely
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In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.
Michael Porter / Professor
Downturn
Instinct
Mistake
Overwhelming
Strategy
Worst
Yourself Your Mind
Board
Mind Yourself Your
Cut
Distinguish
Period
Lay
Pare
Reconnect
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To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Guidance
Long
Two
Useless Stuff
Wade
All Day
Long Day Information
Useful
Distinguish
Unfortunately
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Example
Imagine
Individual
May
Monstrous
Participating
Slave
Tyranny
Between
Forms
Corporation
Distinguish
Nicest
For Example
Look
Owner
Guys
Inherently
Institution
Other
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Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Artist
Italian
Leonardo
Raphael
Renaissance
Wonder
Years
Yourself Your Living
Distinguish
Italy
Lasted
Up-And-Coming
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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 / Bassist
Conditions
Flu
Hiv
Including
Pregnancy
Shots
Viruses
Distinguish
False
Multitude
Test
Virus
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Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients.
David Leavitt / Writer
Combination
Ingredients
People
Soup
Together
Good Together People
Distinguish
Experienced
Mixed
Overheard
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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 / American Football Head Coach
Sports
Cardinals
Color
Country
Dozen
Purple
Amateur
Anywhere
Distinguish
Exactly
First Of All
Teams
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In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish yourself. The hope is that if you cut prices enough you can increase your market share, and even your profits. But this works only if your competitors won't, or can't, follow suit.
James Surowiecki / Journalist
Competitors
Cutting
Dvds
Gasoline
Increase
Player
Selling
Share
Works
Cut
Distinguish
Easiest
Easiest Way
Follow
Industries
Market
Market Share
Price
Product
Profits
Suit
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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 / Astrophysicist
Animal
Deeper
Obeying
Real
Remarkable
Researchers
Tricks
Two
Biggest Challenges
Commands
Talented
Distinguish
Signs
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What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.
Thomas Piketty / Economist
Discipline
Economic
Models
Particular
Pragmatic
Pretending
Pushing
Sophisticated
Apparatus
Closer
Distinguish
Historians
Instead
Methods
Sciences
Social Sciences
Using
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
Alex Berenson / Reporter
Desperate
Driven
Idealism
Masters
Moscow
Refuge
Snowden
Spy
Vow
Beautiful Man World
Distinguish
Edward
Heads
Leaves
Punish
Search
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I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.
Eddie Redmayne / Actor
Conversation
Faces
Hey
Horrific
Memories
Names
Nice
Time Myself Me
Time Myself Start
Appalling
Distinguish
Eddie
Hi
Memory
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