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“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”

Author:Louis Aragon

“Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine! Softball is amazing that way as a sport. Everyone on the field has a slightly different ability that makes them perfect for their position.”

Way Trying Different Lost Sports Ability Perfect Fields Position Shining Compare Inspirational Sports Softball Comparing Yourself Inspirational Softball Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Jennie Finch

“Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!”

Trying Lost Shining Compare Softball Comparing Yourself Inspirational Softball Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Jennie Finch

“The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.”

Term Compare Earthquakes

Author:Loren Acton

“Suppose that there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Persons Moments Happens Science Turns Understanding Creative Claims Compare Appropriate That Moment Similarity

Author:Hideki Yukawa

“There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost virtually no outlets that you can compare with the vast array of conservative press that's out there.”

People Bigs Left Party Presses Democratic Democrat Conservative Compare Outlets Democratic Party Liberal Media

Author:William J. Clinton

“Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds and you will not be able to escape the following law: The different quantities of the same element contained in different molecules are all whole multiples of one and the same quantity, which always being entire, has the right to be called an atom.”

Different Whole Able Law Science Elements Various Following Substance Compare Atoms Quantity Compounds Molecules

Book:Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy

Source: Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy

“As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on tape can still be automatically scanned for durability and it certainly meets the cost-effectiveness requirements.”

Long Stills Term Situation Type Cost Ideals Scales Data Compare Long Term Articles Tape Requirements Effectiveness Storage Retention Durability

Author:George Arthur Crump

“I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.”

People Inspirational Ends Feelings Ten Track Nine Compare Comparison Unhappiness Inadequate

Author:Jack Canfield

“I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.”

Remember Car Details Accidents Compare Rushing Adrenaline Car Accident Adrenaline Rush Rushing In

Author:Brooke Langton

“I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.”

Should Hands Care Film Acting Performances Don't Care British Compare I Don't Care Businessman Fascination Distributors Great Performance British Film

Author:Tim Roth

“The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.”

Writing Bigs Stuff Standards Screens Compare 80s

Author:Colin Baker

“One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.”

Knows Important Earth Talking Moon Scientist Important Things Compare Description Geology Geologist

Author:Gene Cernan

“One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.”

Knows Writing Littles Lines Poet My Favorite Bones Compare Translators Spanish And English

Author:Anita Diament

“A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.”

Want Firsts Looks Critics Impression Compare Lazy First Impression

Author:Willem Dafoe

“Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people.”

People Want Giving Years Has Beens Facts Might Fighting Father Situation Generations Doors Perspective My Family Give Me Harder Compare Closing

Author:Alexi Giannoulias

“There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.”

People Together Fronts Sitting Singers Compare Feedback Instantaneous Rehearsing

Author:Andy Gibb

“Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.”

Years Firsts Audience Connections Compare Euphoric

Author:Billy Gardell

“It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.”

Important Remember Left Calling Terrorist Compare Tyrants Syndromes

Author:John Avlon

“Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.”

Way Left Speak Weak Sight Compare Staring Compliment Leaving Me Pardon

Author:Frankie Valli

“I'm not good at comparing and contrasting. I take what's in front of me for what it is, although I guess there's something about Paul's realistic writing that is like Cassavetes.”

Writing Fronts Compare Realistic

Author:John Cassavetes

“Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.”

Ifs Helping Use Answers Dangerous Activity Compare Programming Justify

Author:Martin Fowler

“A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.”

Form Science Values Keys Compare Engines Mechanism Simplest Intricate Calculating Telegraph

Book:Canadian Stories

Source: Canadian Stories

“Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.”

Body Seems Inevitable Compare

Author:Susan Sontag

“I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.”

Thinking Feels Ideas Character Roles Willing Compare

Author:Monique Coleman

“When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.”

Hard Character Strong Roles Models Female Compare Role Models Female Characters Strong Female Female Roles Female Role Models

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.”

World Light Sun Creatures Compare Glorious Visible Visible Light

Book:The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

Source: The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War

“Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'”

Real Compare Real Me

Author:Carson Kressley

“We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.”

Light Action Opportunity Space Cases Nervous Compare Immense Measuring Velocity Propagation

Author:Johannes Peter Muller

“It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.”