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• The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
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• Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single… — John Dewey
• Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel… — L. Ron Hubbard
• Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli… — Charles Francis Richter
• In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is… — Sigmund Freud
• The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are… — Linus Pauling
• Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins

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