“ What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a mature record means. ”
- Ian Williams- Copy
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“ The story line, the comparisons to this show and the Bible Ends after the names of the characters. ”
- George Jackson- Copy
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“ Comparisons are odorous. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ”
- Lewis Thomas- Copy
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“ I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. ”
- Jonathan Miller- Copy
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“ Wit is brief and sudden, and sharply defined as a crystal; it does not make pictures, it is not fantastic; but it detects an unsuspected analogy or suggests a startling or confounding inference. Every one who has had the opportunity of making the comparison will remember the effect produced on him by some witticisms is closely akin to the effect produced on him by subtle reasoning which lays open a fallacy or absurdity, and there are persons whose delight in such reasoning always manifests itself in laughter. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ I think it's a great album, but it came out at the wrong time. We got a bad deal and it was a very weird time. Without getting to into it, it was not the right time to do what we did. When we went into it, I wasn't sure about it and I told the guys that, but once I understood it more, I got into it just as much as everyone else. ”
- Eric Carr- Copy
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“ Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us. ”
- Margaret Atwood- Copy
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“ The record for rebuilding will be staggering, but it will pale in comparison to the staggering incompetence of this national government. ”
- Mary Landrieu- Copy
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“ The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration. ”
- Junius- Copy
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“ These 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- Copy
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“ Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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“ Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
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“ Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ One simile, that solitary shines In the dry desert of a thousand lines. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. ”
- Marcus Valerius Martial- Copy
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“ Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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