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Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from… — Blaise Pascal
To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. — Rajneesh
The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes… — Phyllis Schlafly
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with… — Francis Maitland Balfour
The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us — Diana Nyad
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible when compared with… — James Hansen
But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such… — Robin McKinley
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. — Mary Stewart
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and… — George Sand
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may… — Peter Drucker
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most… — H.G. Wells
Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may be… — Jonathon Porritt
I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar. — Franklin P. Adams
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour… — Samuel Johnson
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten… — Charles Dickens
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment… — Timothy Keller
Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of… — Mahatma Gandhi
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do. — Leonard Cohen
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. — Baden Powell de Aquino

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