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• I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Holiday, Helping Others

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• The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

  Brendan Behan

  Funny, Marriage, Sexy

  "Readers recommend: songs about prostitution" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2014.

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• Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Two, Evil, Choices

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.197, Ravenio Books

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• The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Attitude, Self Esteem

  "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.

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• The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

  Milton Friedman

  Statistics, Tests, Predictions

  Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Soul, Misunderstood, Genuine

  Felix Mendelssohn's letter to Marc-Andre Souchay (October 15, 1842) as quoted in "Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847" edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Dr. Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy (pp. 313-314), 1863.

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• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  Haile Selassie

  Independent, Years, Civilization

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• I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

  Nancy Mitford

  Thinking, Hunting, Eggs

  Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.109, Vintage

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• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Looks, Misery

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They'll argue, "Well, money isn't important as love." Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What's more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they're both important.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Hands, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 13, 2013

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• Personality begins where comparison ends.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Personality, Love And Hate, Style

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2012

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• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

  Albertus Magnus

  Nature, Clever, Women

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• We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

  Albert Einstein

  Depressing, Powerful, War

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.111, Broadway Books

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• Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

  Barbara Kolb

  Emotional, Pieces, Sensitive

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• Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
  You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Add, Needs, Sticks

  Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006). “All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.

  Kari Jobe

  Heart, Numbers, Desire

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• It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Men, Medicine

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1960). “Career of the Reformer”

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• The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Turns

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.40, Penguin

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• Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No, we use facts connected with Him to outline qualities that correspond with Him, collecting a faint and feeble mental image from various quarters. Our noblest theologian is not one who has discovered the whole - our earthly shackles do not permit us the whole - but one whose mental image is by comparison fuller, who has gathered in his mind a richer picture, outline, or whatever we call it, of the truth.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Mind, Quality

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• I release any feelings of competition or comparison. I simply do my best and enjoy being me.

  Louise Hay

  Competition, Feelings, Being Me

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “The Present Moment: 365 Daily Affirmations”, p.255, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Fall, Eye, Dark

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• Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

  Heinrich Heine

  Writing, Dark, Animal

  "Lutetia; or, Paris". The Augsberg Gazette, 12, VII, 1842.

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• It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

  Anuj

  Creating, Buying, Easy

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• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, People, Track

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