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Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. — Tom Robbins
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared… — Walter Scott
Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure… — Nick Bantock
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as… — Oscar Wilde
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection.… — William Goldman
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those… — Michael Pollan
Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We… — Vladimir Nabokov
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the… — John Steinbeck
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a… — May Sarton
It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared. — Jack Kerouac
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared… — Laurie R. King
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can… — Stephen King
Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all youâ€™ve… — Louis de Bernieres
Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher… — Al Franken
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books… — Cornelia Funke
Death is a great price to pay for a red roseâ€œ, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. â€œ It is pleasant… — Oscar Wilde
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels… — Alan Lightman
Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You… — Milan Kundera
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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