quotes about Comparison
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For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
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The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.
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The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
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What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
-- Edward Kennedy -
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Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.
-- François LelordSource : François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.104, Gallic Books
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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
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Ain't got no comparison and I ain't being arrogant.
-- Gucci Mane -
In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.
-- Hugh MacLennanSource : Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Each Man's Son”, p.310, New Canadian Library
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Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
-- John LydgateSource : "Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.
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There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
-- Jonathan AmesSource : Jonathan Ames (2007). “I Love You More Than You Know: Essays”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Brothers naturally invite comparison ...
-- Larry WatsonSource : Larry Watson (2010). “Montana 1948: A Novel”, p.24, Milkweed Editions
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There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.
-- Lee Hall -
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...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.
-- Myles Munroe -
My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction.
-- Scott McClellan -
I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.
-- Steve ReichSource : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
-- Taylor Momsen -
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
-- Thomas More -
No man is happy but by comparison.
-- Thomas ShadwellSource : Thomas Shadwell (1966). “The Virtuoso”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press
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How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.
-- Tim Roth -
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There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees- Red Sox to me.
-- Willie Randolph -
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
-- Wislawa SzymborskaSource : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying a bass for just one sound and then a bunch of pedals. So in comparison it's not that much.
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I don't do comparisons because I always lose.
-- Rosanne CashSource : "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.
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For like to like, the proverb saith.
-- Thomas WyattSource : Henry Howard earl of Surrey, Thomas Wyatt (1816). “The Works”, p.27
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For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.
-- Thomas WyattSource : Sir Thomas Wyatt (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.84