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I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then… — Jaclyn Moriarty
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege… — Charles Baudelaire
No," said Simon. "I know we're not much compared to you, but we don't kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn't… — Cassandra Clare
I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
I liked it. I liked her. And every time I saw her, she seemed more beautiful. She just seemed to glow. I'm not talking like… — Wendelin Van Draanen
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works… — Max Perutz
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of… — William James
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with… — Thomas A. Edison
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong,… — Abraham Lincoln
I hold all knowledge that is concerned with things that actually exist - all that is commonly called Science - to be of very slight… — Bertrand Russell
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most… — Mary Parker Follett
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand… — John Searle
It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely… — Anton Balasingham
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes… — Rajneesh
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are… — Herbert Muschamp
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions,… — Ludwig von Mises
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's… — Florence Nightingale

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