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• Johnny Bench
  befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).

  Gary Carter

  Stars, Games, Wings

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• When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Spring, Winter

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• Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

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• I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
  And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

  W. S. Gilbert

  Income, Return, Manners

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Law, Advice

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• Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

  Arthur Balfour

  Law, Heaven, Sublime

  "Foundations of Belief". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", 1922.

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• Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master.

  Dalai Lama

  Jesus, Masters

  The New York Times, November 28, 1993.

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• Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Believe, Pay, Ordinary

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• I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.

  Laurence Boldt

  Happy, Time, Unique

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.330, Penguin

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• [The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.

  Denton Cooley

  Heart, Body, Function

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• You can never compare two players that are different, they're never going to be the same.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Player, Two, Different

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• Frankly speaking, I hate comparisons. Two individuals are doing two different films, playing two different characters: how can you compare them? It is not fair to get into ratings. It really doesn't matter what I think about other actresses; what matters is what the directors think of them when they are casting them in a project, because I think it's the director who's behind a successful piece of cinema.

  Katrina Kaif

  Hate, Character, Successful

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• Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
  Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
  Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

  Ann Voskamp

  Girl, Empowering, Champion

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• Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify
  them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Choices, Fundamentals

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1985). “Existentialism and Human Emotions”, Citadel Press

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• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Nature, Men

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• Three great ways to lose a lover:
  Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father.
  Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience.
  Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors.

  Perry Brass

  Mother, Father, Three

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.31, Perry Brass

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• Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

  Suzy Kassem

  Success, Flower, Passion

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Memories, Future

  Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.190, Conari Press

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• Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

  Simon Bolivar

  Enemy, Matter, Spirit

  "Simon Bolivar". Book by Gerhard Masur, 1948.

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• I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've made when I held it up to the music I love. I try not to compare them now.

  Michael Dumontier

  Pyramids, Trying, Essentials

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• On the road you have to be more organized. Also, a crowd's energy helps you focus. Nothing compares to playing live. You have to slamdunk whatever you're playing. In the studio, you can do things over.

  Chris Wyse

  Focus, Energy, Crowds

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  Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

  Frida Kahlo

  White, Racism, Males

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Curves, Insecurity

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Happiness is not like we were walking around fingering razor blades or anything like that. But it just sort of seems as if - we sort of knew how happy our parents were, and we would compare our lives with our parents and see that, at least on the surface or according to the criteria that the culture lays down for a successful, happy life, we were actually doing better than a lot of them were.

  David Foster Wallace

  Successful, Happy Life, Parent

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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• God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

  LeCrae

  Running, Race, People

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