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The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.… — Jacob Bronowski
A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we… — Laozi
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and… — Richard Posner
The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a… — Michel de Certeau
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one… — Polly Toynbee
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. — Terrell Owens
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were… — John Sayles
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year.… — Marvin Harris
The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that… — Teresa of Avila
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to… — Hugh Mackay
A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy,… — Max Lucado
The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an… — Leon M. Lederman
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later.… — Wallace Shawn
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness. — Thomas Huxley
Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel… — Hayao Miyazaki
I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career. — JJ Feild
I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has… — Thomas Aquinas
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared… — Thomas Paine
Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me. — Robert A. Heinlein

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