Comparable Quotes

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A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but lost the impact it once… — Corey Taylor
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer… — Peter Singer
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to… — Anthony of Padua
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage… — Billie Burke
There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with… — Carl Sagan
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier… — Eric S. Raymond
Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a… — Neil L. Andersen
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement… — Edith Grossman
I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of… — Thomas Jefferson
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods,… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the… — M. King Hubbert
Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might… — Barbara Sher
Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other… — Alan Dershowitz
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work… — Alice Hamilton
What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that… — John Henry Newman
All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,… — Sigmund Freud
My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly… — Warren G. Harding

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