Comparatively Quotes

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short… — Calvin Coolidge
Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is… — Jeffrey Kluger
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life… — Samuel Smiles
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the… — Florenz Ziegfeld
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good… — Ezra Pound
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it… — Graham Greene
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of… — Henry David Thoreau
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… — Charlotte Bronte
One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively. — Stephenie Meyer
It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry… — Marguerite Duras
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them… — Anton Chekhov
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or… — Henry Ford
Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. — Henry David Thoreau
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense. — Henry Ford
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow — Samuel Smiles
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively… — Mark Z. Jacobson
When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small… — Nikola Tesla
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order… — Jose Rizal
Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high,… — Alan Huffman

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