"The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger……" — Pauline Kael

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• God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of… — Nicolas Cage
• Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana
• From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of… — Noam Chomsky
• All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is,… — Karl Popper
• I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing… — Thomas Jefferson
• The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Unknown Author
• Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out… — Unknown Author
• Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who… — Margaret Drabble
• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is… — Anthony Storr

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