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How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...

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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so-called,) ...

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Comparison is the death of joy.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

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

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

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Stephen L. CarterThe Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance r...

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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore a...

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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century ...

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Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It d...

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Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothin...

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We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both T...

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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the si...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typicall...

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Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand new.

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are n...

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Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousnes...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation ...

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The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is...

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How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Th...

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Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...

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If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, ...

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Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t...

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