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• Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  Solomon

  Being Happy, Jewels, Desire

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

  Darrin Patrick

  Jesus, Maturity, Judging

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• In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

  Robert Breault

  Religious, Science, Trying

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• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Self, Years, Generosity

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• If you’re comparing the badness of two words and you won’t even say one of them [the n-word], that’s the worse word.

  John Mulaney

  Two, Badness, Ifs

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• On seeing the marsupials in Australia for the first time and comparing them to placental mammals: “An unbeliever . . . might exclaim 'Surely two distinct Creators must have been at work'”

  Charles Darwin

  Thinking, Two, Australia

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• Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Horse, Essence, Fine

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Sorry, Taken

  News conference in Chicago, August 11, 1966.

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• I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Taken, Christ

  "Ringo was the secret ingredient and other revelations from Ron Howard’s Beatles movie" by Stephanie Merry, www.washingtonpost.com. September 16, 2016.

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• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Errors, Skills

  1997 Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 1998.

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• Learn, compare, collect the facts!

  Ivan Pavlov

  Facts

  Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 27 February (1936)

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• I hate to compare anything, especially while I'm promoting. I feel that's another disrespect, but 'Ocean's 13' is the best movie I've ever done in my life. No question.

  Bernie Mac

  Hate, Ocean, Disrespect

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• People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

  Hannibal Buress

  Rocks, People, Murphy

  "A Brief Conversation with Hannibal Buress". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

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• The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

  Frans de Waal

  Giving, Empathy, Brain

  "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?". The Chronicle, October 26, 2001.

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• You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

  Steffi Graf

  Children, Growing Up, Safe Environment

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• If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.125, Profile Books

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• If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication and anything else that can plausibly be considered morally significant.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Communication, Animal

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• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

  Thomas More

  Pride, Thinking, Shining

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am constantly concerned about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing or having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach to the name of Christ. People do not come to hear what Billy Graham has to say; they want to hear what God has to say. Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Jesus, Names

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• We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

  Roger Caras

  Heart, Men, Wind

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Birds in flight”, Westover Pub. Co

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• You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

  Dale Berra

  Baseball, Father, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

  Ernest Bramah

  Fighting, Grace, Balance

  Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.527, e-artnow

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• Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is to say are taken from two quite different times.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Taken, Men, Two

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1965). “The Appearance of Man”

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• The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like, the freer the system, the better off the ordinary poor people have been.

  Milton Friedman

  Voice, People, Ordinary

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