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• There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

  Mike Mason

  Doctors, Drug, Coercion

  Mike Mason (1985). “Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle”, Multnomah

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• Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

  Rafe Esquith

  Baseball, Children, Kids

  Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin

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• We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

  Jerry Bridges

  Attitude, Grace, Want

  Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.81, NavPress

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• The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Moving, Thinking, Ipods

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• When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

  Cheri Huber

  Acceptance, Wish, Here And Now

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity of 50 m.p.h. As a source of power this compares favorably with 6,000 tons of water falling every second over Niagara Falls. I will not further anticipate some H. G. Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers.

  Frank Debenham

  Fall, Blow, Average

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• Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Two, Judging

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.72

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• I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Past, Years

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• With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

  Arthur Caplan

  Suicide, Fate, Science

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• Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

  William Gurnall

  Agreement, Doctrine, Scripture

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.256

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• The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go.

  Pat Ament

  Climbing, Ideas, Would Be

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• Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

  Evan Esar

  Perspective, Unhappy, Want

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• Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.

  Christopher Logue

  Art, Giving, Use

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• God is also fully aware that the people you think are perfect are not.
  And yet we spend so much time and energy comparing ourselves to others-usually comparing our weaknesses to their strengths. This drives us to create expectations for ourselves that are impossible to meet. As a result, we never celebrate our good efforts because they seem to be less than what someone else does

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Thinking, Expectations, People

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• There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

  Lewis Carroll

  Feelings, One Day, Use

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

  Paulo Coelho

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• People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, New York, Mistake

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• Until now when we have started to talk about the uniqueness of America we have almost always ended by comparing ourselves to Europe. Toward her we have felt all the attraction and repulsions of Oedipus

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Country, Oedipus, Europe

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• Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Humor, Rivers

  Attributed, in Hawker 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen' (1859) p. 197, though not found in Johnson's works. 'Notes and Queries' 11 December 1915

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• Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.

  Willow Smith

  Bird, Comparing Yourself

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• When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Mean, Gnosis

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• May I invite you to rise to the great potential within you. But don't reach beyond your capacity. Don't set goals beyond your capacity to achieve. Don't feel guilty or dwell on thoughts of failure. Don't compare yourself with others. Do the best you can, and the Lord will provide the rest. Have faith and confidence in Him, and you will see miracles happen in your life and the lives of your loved ones.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Happy, New Year, Goal

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• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  Sammy Sosa

  Opportunity, Ruth, Care

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• We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.

  Moses Mendelssohn

  Thinking, Together, Would Be

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