Comparison Quotes

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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time… — Jack Nicklaus
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other… — Abraham Lincoln
Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live.… — John Wooden
Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of… — Elaine L. Jack
There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears -… — Arianna Huffington
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents… — James E. Faust
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis, but be certain… — John Stuart Mill
What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has… — Wolfgang Pauli
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking… — James Fenton
The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very… — Samuel Johnson
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination… — Samuel Johnson
Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place… — T. Harv Eker
Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of… — Charles Babbage
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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