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• We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

  Leigh Hunt

  Eye, Animal, Expression

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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• It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

  Christopher Lasch

  Bourgeoisie, Peculiar, Horror

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• The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Differences, Special, Language

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• Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

  Isaac Barrow

  Flower, Book, House

  Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185

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• There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speaking Well, Offending, Land

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• Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Long, Notion

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• I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Mother, Daughter, Wife

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• The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Soul, Care

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects. With a memoir of the author, by S. Drew [&c.].”, p.357

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• Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Relax, Uniqueness

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• There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suffering, Young Writers, Young

  Jonathan Ames (2007). “I Love You More Than You Know: Essays”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.

  Kurt Bills

  Philosophy, Reality, People

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• The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.

  Paul Strand

  Gratitude, Thinking, Men

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• Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

  E. C. Bentley

  What Matters, Judging, World

  E. C. Bentley (2015). “The Woman in Black”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Conflict, Feels, I Can

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• The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

  Dorothea Brande

  Differences, People, Problem

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.

  Gavyn Davies

  Son, Past, Blue

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• I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Sports, Play, Quality

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• Victory does not feel so good as losing feels bad. When you have a son, you are happy. But it's no comparison to the sadness you feel losing a son.

  Toni Nadal

  Sadness, Son, Victory

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• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

  Joseph Needham

  Real, Aztec, Achievement

  Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

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• These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

  William J. Clinton

  People, Religion, Identity

  "My vision for peace" by Bill Clinton, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

  Derek Bailey

  Thinking, Play, Absence

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• To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Modern, Humans

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

  Parker Stevenson

  New York, Wall, School

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• A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

  Francis Crick

  Agreement, Mutation, Acid

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