Comparable Quotes

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To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man.… — Arthur C. Clarke
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. — Margaret Fuller
With God, life is eternal-both in quality and length. There is no joy comparable to the joy of discovering something new from God, about God.… — Eugenia Price
The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could… — Alice B. Toklas
The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power. — Matt Drudge
The spiritual uplift, the goodwill, cheerfulness and optimism that accompanies every expedition to the outdoors is the peculiar spirit that our people need in times… — Herbert Hoover
Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women… — William J. Brennan
A pretty girl is certainly comparable to a good horse. — William Shatner
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies. — Ray Kurzweil
During the first few minutes in lift-off, the astronauts were strictly controlled and were powerfully buffeted by the forces of nature struggling to keep them… — Stephen Covey
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. — Vernor Vinge
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. — Pierre Salinger
Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the… — Walter Moers
The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to… — Hubertus Strughold
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between the stars, where… — William Beebe
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of… — Aldous Huxley
The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace — Marie Curie
I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood. — Henry David Thoreau
The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units. — Claude Bernard
For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river. — Henry Van Dyke

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