Quotes with discriminating

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• A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

  William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
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• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

  Agnes Repplier
  American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• discriminating
• distinguishing
• complaisance
• impossible
• principle
• noxious

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