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- God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage
- Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana
- From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky
- All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper
- I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson
- The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Unknown Author
- Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Unknown Author
- Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble
- It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr