I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give people… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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In comparison to the U.S. health care system, the German system is clearly better, because the German health care system works for… — Karl Lauterbach Copy Share Image
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage,… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
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Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys… — Nas Copy Share Image
If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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Habits of thought lead us to brush aside descriptions of cruelty to animals as emotional, for "animal-lovers only"; or if not that,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The life of comparison is deadly. One is always more than or less than and it is based upon a brief proof… — Michael Burkard Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
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The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past.… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I've done a few remakes now, as you know. And my philosophy is, you see the original film once, and that's it.… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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