After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison,… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Archaeology in general is the recovery and study of the material culture of past civilizations. Biblical archaeology is as an application of… — Randall Price Copy Share Image
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built… — Donald Watson Copy Share Image
Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition… — Elizabeth Spelke Copy Share Image
YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to… — Lavrenti Lopes Copy Share Image
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five… — Ben Webster Copy Share Image
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you… — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
