Comparable Quotes

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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical… — Henry A. Kissinger
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media â€“ which, incidentally, is what… — Rupert Murdoch
This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am… — Marie Marvingt
Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon. — Edward Topsell
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the… — Robert Grudin
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of… — Marcel Achard
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it youre presumed to… — Robert M. Pirsig
With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home… — Gordon B. Hinckley
If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their… — Wolfgang Kohler
There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux… — Mary Daly
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding… — Jan de Bont
I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that… — Milton Friedman
The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents,… — Gary North
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. — George Sarton
By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best… — James Hillman
I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism. — Lord Kelvin
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of… — Florence King
I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United… — Charles Lichenstein
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support… — Ayn Rand

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