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“We live in a world of communication, everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.”

People World Next Doors Crime Information Communication Universal Compare Decent Comparison Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“When you see a great teacher, you are seeing a work of art.”

Art Education Teacher Seeing Comparison Works Of Art Great Teacher

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.”

Looks Doe Bills Comparison

Author:Mick LaSalle

“There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.”

Important Today Can Do Important Things Comparison Veganism

Author:Lee Hall

“It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.”

Easy Difficult Creating Buying Comparison Borrowing

Author:Anuj

“All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.”

World America Past Ignorance Concepts Currents Confusion Reasonable Empires Comparison Places In The World Roman Empire Roman Civilization

Author:Donald Kagan

“If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.”

“The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments ... and the appeal to the emotions ... and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.”

Emotion Behavior Argument Essence Mental Health Patterns Illness Cease Appeals Reasonable Comparison Norm Flexibility Insatiable Learning Experience Freezing Measure Of A Man Sated

Author:David Brin

“There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.”

“You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?”

Mind Looks Heart Persons Doe I Can Self Play Beautiful Games Attitude Unique Asking Critics Profit Surface Guilty Destructive Comparison Lenses Of My Mind My Attitude Verdict Jurors

Author:John Powell

“Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.”

Party Accepting Issues Integrity Comparison Liberal Party

Author:Pauline Marois

“Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have.”

Way Feels Feelings Our Lives Example Truth Is Comfortable Roots Grateful Who You Are Satisfaction Meaningful Compare Comparison Vary Dissatisfaction

Book:The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

Source: The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

“The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.”

Knows Want Self Causes Voice Listening Ego Judgment Highest Including Comparison Turmoil Separateness

Book:Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want

Source: Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want

“Practice being gentle, respectful and loving toward the life force in all things. Remind yourself that your efforts do make a difference, even if you think they are miniscule in comparison to the magnitude of the problem.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Force Differences Effort Practice All Things Gentle Making A Difference Comparison Gentleness Respectful Magnitude

Author:Wayne Dyer

“A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.”

“A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.”

Kind Doe Enough Use Age Stuff Instance Comparison Poetry Is Latin Verses Rhyme Indispensable Glances Medieval Crude

Author:James Fenton

“Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.”

School Black Records Brother Highest High School Performances Average Our Family Accomplished Comparison Academic Scholar Sheep Mediocre Older Brother Cumulative Black Sheep Raison D'etre

Author:Steven Chu

“By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.”

Night Church Pleasure Gay Clubs Comparison Positively Night Club

Book:Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley

Source: Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley

“The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.”

Thinking Art Ideas Sometimes Together Reading Violence Reader Surprise Improvement Admire Comparison Metaphysics Subtlety Illustration Allusion Nature And Art

Book:Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.”

May Character Moral Travel Tradition Observation Comparison Organs Definite Traveller

Book:Persons and Places: My host the world

Source: Persons and Places: My host the world

“People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.”

People Can Do Compare Comparison Jeter

Author:Nomar Garciaparra

“Do not be dismayed, daughters, at the number of things that you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.”

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Author:Teresa of Avila

“I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.”

People World Way Want Trying Stuff Interest Laughing Easier Comparison Making People Laugh Hottest

Author:Amanda Bynes

“But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?”

World Believe Seems Might Economy Musician Comparison Provinces

Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“People will always make comparisons.”

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Author:Don DeLillo

“The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.”

Book Dream Father President Modern Serious Bears Campaigns Comparison Why Not Autobiography Jimmy Carter Dreams From My Father

Book:Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

Source: Driving Home: An American Scrapbook

“I'm never really sure what that word means, but however inaccurately I use it, 'classical' was always my ideal, as long as I can remember, and something of that has always stayed with me, to this day. Of course, there were difficulties, because in comparison to my ideal, I didn't even come close.”

Mean Long Art I Can Use Remember Courses Ideals Difficulty Comparison This Day

Author:Gerhard Richter

“A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.”

Want Science Wise Effects Plant Soil Comparison Ingredients Quantity Smallest Accommodate Containing Manure

Author:Justus von Liebig

“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

“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”

Seems Worst Horror Mass Driven Contemporary Features Attractive Obsessed Comparison Peculiar Tribute Modernism Bourgeoisie Contemporary Life

Author:Christopher Lasch

“The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.”

Said Language Differences Special Institutions Comparison Special Places

Author:Ferdinand de Saussure

“Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!”

May Meditation Like You Exercise Blessed Profound Manage Comparison Sacraments Godly Exalted Pious Practise Blessed Sacrament

Author:Johannes Tauler

“In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.”

Men World Way America Jew Feminist Scary Comparison Nazi

Author:Warren Farrell

“Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.”

Men Long Has Beens Notion Comparison Obliged Methodical

Author:Emile Durkheim

“There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.”

Young Suffering Comparison Young Writers

Book:I Love You More Than You Know: Essays

Source: I Love You More Than You Know: Essays

“My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue - and develop a realization of their individual economic philosophy in comparison to their perceived political ideology.”

People Philosophy Reality Political Individual Virtue Economic Ideology Realization Comparison Political Ideology

Author:Kurt Bills

“I'm OCD beyond comparison.”

Comparison Ocd

Author:Fred Durst

“The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.”

World Way Years Made Done Past Lost Planets Son Walking Blue Beast Comparison Conspiracy Terrific Rating Programmes Blue Planet

Author:Gavyn Davies

“I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.”

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Author:Ronnie Dunn

“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”

Years Firsts Important Self Differences Attitude Self Esteem Acceptance Important Things Dance Comparison Ballet I Have Learned Imperatives

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.”

Ifs Different Play Sports Quality Generations Conditions Starting Eras Opposition Comparison Variables Different Eras

Author:Sunil Gavaskar

“I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.”

Knows Want Feels My Own Comparison Bad Things Old Days Personal Experiences Generalization

Author:Jeffrey Jones

“American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.”

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