Comparative Quotes

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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance.… — Carl Jung
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when… — P.J. O'Rourke
The fact that global savers accommodate U.S. consumers by keeping U.S. interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and the dollar stronger than it… — John H. Makin
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. — Eric Temple Bell
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as… — Michael Shermer
The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they… — Ezra Hall Gillett
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
I remember when we had to pick our major freshman year, I chose comparative religion. It came to me out of the blue. I am… — Amy Brenneman
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest… — Judith Martin
Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment. — Blaise Pascal
The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new — Pauline Kael
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their… — Guy Endore
We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage... — Max McKeown
Private appropriation of the Earthâ€™s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but… — Eugene V. Debs
For a time it seemed inevitable that the surging tide of agnosticism and materialism would sweep all before it. There were those who did not… — Swami Vivekananda
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in… — Hermann von Helmholtz
There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting. — Soren Kierkegaard
To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important… — Richard Koch
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted… — George Edmund Street
The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I… — William Petty

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