Comparable Quotes

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The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what happened in Hollywood… — Terry Wogan
Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every… — Marcus Garvey
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated… — Eugene Wigner
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form. It's comparable to… — Frederick Lenz
Nothing can be comparable to good health — Choi Hong Hi
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. — Amelia Earhart
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. — Havelock Ellis
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are… — Ivan Illich
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. — Thomas Jefferson
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. — George Santayana
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were… — Sonia Sotomayor
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx.… — Sonia Sotomayor
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness… — Adam Weishaupt
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though… — Bret Easton Ellis
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Peter Kropotkin
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams — Hugh Walpole
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable… — Al Gore
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do… — Peter Singer

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