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I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca	added by Normando 5 months ago
The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested. – Merlin Sheldrake	added by Greying_Geezer 1 year ago
It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions. – Thomas Jefferson	added by Normando 1 year ago
When you look at how do you distinguish between a legal carry and someone who's carrying it illegally, it is just really challenging, and then responding to the bad days that individuals have in New York City, in big cities across America, but they're armed with a weapon. You can see a simple dispute elevate to a shooting. This is a real concern, which Supreme Courts put in place. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think the President Joe Biden administration has tried to distinguish its North Korea policy by making the case that it's not interested in flashy summits or grand bargains, but that it wants to take a practical and calibrated approach to build towards the complete denuclearization of North Korea, i think the hang up, of course, is not so much Patricia Kim policy, but the fact that North Korea seems to have zero interest in talking about denuclearization. – Patricia Kim	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths — spit them out on the pavement, i am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges. – Vladimir Putin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths, i am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges. – Vladimir Putin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Short of getting a test, I would say it's really tricky to distinguish right now, we need to just treat cold-ish symptoms in pretty much the same bucket. – Sarah Ash Combs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The trick to doing so in an emotionally healthy manner is to distinguish between two types of grievances -- those we can't do anything about and those we would actually like to resolve. – Guy Winch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
China may fill these out eventually but in the interim, when they are not all filled out, would The US be able to distinguish with certainty which silos are filled and which aren't and would we have to commit to destroying all of these no matter what ? If that is the case then The US has to commit maybe twice the number of warheads to all of the silos, if you are the US this forces you to re-think nuclear planning. – Vipin Narang	Found on CNN 2 years ago
De Winton's were last found in 1936, you only really find traces that they were there and when you do manage to find one and you capture one externally, you can't really distinguish between other species. – Le Roux	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The virus doesn’t distinguish between a national and a refugee. So, if you don’t protect and save your refugee population it becomes a public health issue. – Sajjad Malik	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Her urine was consistent with the consumption of pork that was containing high levels of nandrolone. We told this to the lab before her B-sample was tested. Under the rules they were supposed to account for it. When your urinary markers are where they were with Shelby’s – in the very, very low range – it is impossible for the machine that does the testing to distinguish between these two, there’s a way to do that called an atypical finding and that’s what we think should have been done in Shelby’s case and it wasn’t. – Paul Greene	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You can not distinguish between somebody being infected in December or being infected in March or April. – Ian Lipkin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
As Beijing moves forward with passing the national security law, State Mike Pompeo will today end exports of US-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on State Mike Pompeo defense and dual-use technologies to Hong KongRights as it does for China, state Mike Pompeo is forced to take this action to protect State Mike Pompeo national security. We can no longer distinguish between the export of controlled items to Hong KongRights or to mainland China. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We've been training our automated systems to distinguish medical masks from non-medical masks and get better at detecting violating content with false urgency and health claims. While our enforcement won't ever be perfect, it will get better with time. – Rob Leathern	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Apparently the Iranian regime is unable to distinguish between saving animals from committing espionage. – Brian Hook	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
His crime ? Trying to save an endangered species from extinction, apparently the Iranian regime is unable to distinguish between saving animals from committing espionage. – Brian Hook	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Since we can distinguish scrolls that originated from Qumran from other scrolls, we think that maybe in the future it could help identify real versus false scroll pieces. – Oded Rechavi	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The donor threshold was appropriate for the opening stages of the race, when candidates were building their organizations and there were no metrics available outside of polling to distinguish those making progress from those who weren't. – Adrienne Watson	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's our attempt to weave everything together in a single experience for our customers, customers don't distinguish AWS from Alexa from Amazon.com. It's Amazon. – Dean Phillips	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Beyond Burger have meatless products on the market that could be difficult for people to distinguish from actual meat. However, Americans are eating more meat than they have in more than a decade. The average American meat-eater is set to devour nearly 221.5 pounds of meat this year alone, according to the USDA. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Bill Pigott, a Republican Mississippi state representative and a member of the Cattlemens Association, said Bill Pigott aim in writing Mississippis version of the law was to make sure it was clear consumers knew what theyre buying. This was asked for by the cattle producers in Mississippi to clarify labeling laws, Bill Pigott said. [ Its ] not to stop any sale of any products, just allowing the consumer to know what theyre actually consuming. Bill Pigott said there was nothing wrong with Bill Pigott sponsoring the law -- though Bill Pigott is still a member of the Mississippi Cattlemens Association, Bill Pigott has retired from cattle production and would not personally benefit from the law.In a search of public records, Fox could not find any lobbying efforts or financial ties between Bill Pigott and Cattlemens Association. The Institute for Justice said consumers are savvy enough to understand what The Institute for Justice clients labels clearly state. Customers understand that 100percent vegan, means 100 percent vegan, attorney Justin Pearson said. The Institute for Justice not the governments job to sway consumers one way or the other. Customers get to decide what food they want to eat. Uptons Naturals said Uptons Naturals wasnt clear how much Uptons Naturals would cost the company to re-package Uptons Naturals products if the meat labeling prohibition is upheld in Mississippi. Uptons Naturals would have to consider Uptons Naturals options. Cattlemens Association said the right to choose would still be alive and well for consumers, but appropriate labels would make things much clearer. Cattlemens Association doesnt ban anybody from selling anything theyre selling now. – Andy Berry	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The (first) issue is, can any biomarker distinguish CFS patients from those with other fatiguing illnesses? And second, is it measuring the cause, and not the consequence, of illness? this study does not provide any evidence that either has finally been achieved. – Simon Wessely	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think it is a very reasonable approach, it recognizes that investors are smart enough to distinguish between tweets that are material information — and Elon Musk being Elon Musk. – Marc Leaf	Found on CNN 5 years ago

I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
5 months ago

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

– Merlin Sheldrake

added by Greying_Geezer
1 year ago

It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.

– Thomas Jefferson

added by Normando
1 year ago

When you look at how do you distinguish between a legal carry and someone who's carrying it illegally, it is just really challenging, and then responding to the bad days that individuals have in New York City, in big cities across America, but they're armed with a weapon. You can see a simple dispute elevate to a shooting. This is a real concern, which Supreme Courts put in place.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the President Joe Biden administration has tried to distinguish its North Korea policy by making the case that it's not interested in flashy summits or grand bargains, but that it wants to take a practical and calibrated approach to build towards the complete denuclearization of North Korea, i think the hang up, of course, is not so much Patricia Kim policy, but the fact that North Korea seems to have zero interest in talking about denuclearization.

– Patricia Kim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths — spit them out on the pavement, i am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Russian people will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and simply spit them out like a fly that accidentally flew into their mouths, i am convinced that such a natural and necessary self-purification of society will only strengthen our country, our solidarity, cohesion and readiness to respond to any challenges.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Short of getting a test, I would say it's really tricky to distinguish right now, we need to just treat cold-ish symptoms in pretty much the same bucket.

– Sarah Ash Combs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The trick to doing so in an emotionally healthy manner is to distinguish between two types of grievances -- those we can't do anything about and those we would actually like to resolve.

– Guy Winch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

China may fill these out eventually but in the interim, when they are not all filled out, would The US be able to distinguish with certainty which silos are filled and which aren't and would we have to commit to destroying all of these no matter what ? If that is the case then The US has to commit maybe twice the number of warheads to all of the silos, if you are the US this forces you to re-think nuclear planning.

– Vipin Narang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

De Winton's were last found in 1936, you only really find traces that they were there and when you do manage to find one and you capture one externally, you can't really distinguish between other species.

– Le Roux

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The virus doesn’t distinguish between a national and a refugee. So, if you don’t protect and save your refugee population it becomes a public health issue.

– Sajjad Malik

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Her urine was consistent with the consumption of pork that was containing high levels of nandrolone. We told this to the lab before her B-sample was tested. Under the rules they were supposed to account for it. When your urinary markers are where they were with Shelby’s – in the very, very low range – it is impossible for the machine that does the testing to distinguish between these two, there’s a way to do that called an atypical finding and that’s what we think should have been done in Shelby’s case and it wasn’t.

– Paul Greene

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can not distinguish between somebody being infected in December or being infected in March or April.

– Ian Lipkin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As Beijing moves forward with passing the national security law, State Mike Pompeo will today end exports of US-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on State Mike Pompeo defense and dual-use technologies to Hong KongRights as it does for China, state Mike Pompeo is forced to take this action to protect State Mike Pompeo national security. We can no longer distinguish between the export of controlled items to Hong KongRights or to mainland China.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've been training our automated systems to distinguish medical masks from non-medical masks and get better at detecting violating content with false urgency and health claims. While our enforcement won't ever be perfect, it will get better with time.

– Rob Leathern

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Apparently the Iranian regime is unable to distinguish between saving animals from committing espionage.

– Brian Hook

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

His crime ? Trying to save an endangered species from extinction, apparently the Iranian regime is unable to distinguish between saving animals from committing espionage.

– Brian Hook

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Since we can distinguish scrolls that originated from Qumran from other scrolls, we think that maybe in the future it could help identify real versus false scroll pieces.

– Oded Rechavi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The donor threshold was appropriate for the opening stages of the race, when candidates were building their organizations and there were no metrics available outside of polling to distinguish those making progress from those who weren't.

– Adrienne Watson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's our attempt to weave everything together in a single experience for our customers, customers don't distinguish AWS from Alexa from Amazon.com. It's Amazon.

– Dean Phillips

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Beyond Burger have meatless products on the market that could be difficult for people to distinguish from actual meat. However, Americans are eating more meat than they have in more than a decade. The average American meat-eater is set to devour nearly 221.5 pounds of meat this year alone, according to the USDA. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Bill Pigott, a Republican Mississippi state representative and a member of the Cattlemens Association, said Bill Pigott aim in writing Mississippis version of the law was to make sure it was clear consumers knew what theyre buying. This was asked for by the cattle producers in Mississippi to clarify labeling laws, Bill Pigott said. [ Its ] not to stop any sale of any products, just allowing the consumer to know what theyre actually consuming. Bill Pigott said there was nothing wrong with Bill Pigott sponsoring the law -- though Bill Pigott is still a member of the Mississippi Cattlemens Association, Bill Pigott has retired from cattle production and would not personally benefit from the law.In a search of public records, Fox could not find any lobbying efforts or financial ties between Bill Pigott and Cattlemens Association. The Institute for Justice said consumers are savvy enough to understand what The Institute for Justice clients labels clearly state. Customers understand that 100percent vegan, means 100 percent vegan, attorney Justin Pearson said. The Institute for Justice not the governments job to sway consumers one way or the other. Customers get to decide what food they want to eat. Uptons Naturals said Uptons Naturals wasnt clear how much Uptons Naturals would cost the company to re-package Uptons Naturals products if the meat labeling prohibition is upheld in Mississippi. Uptons Naturals would have to consider Uptons Naturals options. Cattlemens Association said the right to choose would still be alive and well for consumers, but appropriate labels would make things much clearer. Cattlemens Association doesnt ban anybody from selling anything theyre selling now.

– Andy Berry

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The (first) issue is, can any biomarker distinguish CFS patients from those with other fatiguing illnesses? And second, is it measuring the cause, and not the consequence, of illness? this study does not provide any evidence that either has finally been achieved.

– Simon Wessely

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think it is a very reasonable approach, it recognizes that investors are smart enough to distinguish between tweets that are material information — and Elon Musk being Elon Musk.

– Marc Leaf

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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