Comparable Quotes

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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no… — Edward Coke
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics… — John Lahr
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for… — Gary Larson
In the Far East, studying yoga is comparable to a mixture of attending one of the best Western universities, and of being an intrepid explorer. — Frederick Lenz
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that… — Yuri Milner
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the… — Mark Twain
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,… — Harlow Shapley
One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is… — D. H. Lawrence
There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look,… — John Steinbeck
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. — Robert Fitzgerald
Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a… — John Paul DeJoria
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or… — Steven Johnson
England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal â€“ to… — Dan Smoot
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of… — Henry Hazlitt
However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At… — Sean Hannity
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning… — Carrie P Snow
Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube. — Dave Barry
America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new… — James Smith McDonnell

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