Comparative Quotes

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I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course… — Michael Eisner
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time. — Aaron Wildavsky
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. — Louis Begley
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. — Emily Greene Balch
At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. — Robert T. Bakker
Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his… — William Shenstone
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. — Robert Genn
We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is… — Amos Bronson Alcott
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it… — Lev Grossman
I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't… — Courteney Cox
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. — Plautus
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes. — John Podhoretz
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. — Samuel Richardson
Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm? — Charles Bukowski
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot… — William T. Vollmann

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