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And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

Epictetus

Communication, Athlete, People

Epictetus (1925). “The Discourses as reported by Arrian: the Manual, and fragments”

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[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

Paulo Freire

Greatness, Judging, Dignity

Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.53, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fate, Judging, Would Be

Friedrich Nietzsche (2004). “Why I am So Wise”, p.86, Penguin UK

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I found I'm quite happy working on a sentence for an hour or more, searching for the right phrase, the right word. I compare it to the work of a stonecutter - chipping away at the raw material until it's just right, or as right as you can get it.

Harriet Doerr

Writing, Phrases, Stones

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The heart feels, the head compares.

François-René de Chateaubriand

Heart, Feels

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When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered.

T. S. Eliot

Art, Important, Importance

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That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.

Chuck Klosterman

Apples, Sloth, Fruit

Chuck Klosterman (2013). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.80, Faber & Faber

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People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

Baron Davis

Running, Team, People

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Compare birth with death, compare death with life; compare what is possible with what is not possible and compare what is not possible with what is possible; because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

Zhuangzi

Birth

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The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Laozi

Thinking, Simple, Dwelling

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You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

Bernard Hopkins

Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

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When I'm writing a book I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

Italo Calvino

Book, Writing, Trying

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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

Stephen Covey

Character, Responsibility, Ambition

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You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

Natasha Lyonne

Thinking, Plot, Peers

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Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

Alfie Kohn

Assessment, Expectations, Students

Alfie Kohn (2000). “The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "tougher Standards"”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It’s not comparing yourself with others who call themselves Christians. Compare yourself to the Scripture.

Paul Washer

Christian, Scripture, Comparing Yourself

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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

Nathan Fillion

Hate, Thinking, People

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On one hand it's very flattering to be compared to a big success, and then sometimes it's very frustrating because you want people to see the movie that you're making and not be continually comparing it to something that it's not. So it goes both ways.

Neil Burger

Hands, People, Want

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Iniesta is the boyfriend that every mother wants her daughter to have. The figures over his career tell you all you need to know. He is a magical player. There are few players in the world that can compare to him.

Sergio Ramos

Daughter, Mother, Player

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It's ugly to compare but the greatest was Pele. If we believe that God made man, the "black" Pelé he made him perfect. He gave him everything. He lacked nothing, header, physical power, dribbling, finishing, inspiration, genius, temper, vision, goal. Everything.

Cesar Luis Menotti

Believe, Inspiration, Men

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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

Marvin Minsky

Quality, Turns, Quantity

Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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There is a great destructive force that comes upon us when we start comparing ourselves in the flesh with what we could be spiritually. We should never compare what we are with what we could be, because we will always be down on ourselves when we do this. Just look to Jesus and what He is. As long as we look to Jesus we will go toward Him. When we look at our inferiority we will go toward it.

Smith Wigglesworth

Jesus, Long, Looks

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Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.

Boy George

Bus

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He who had known us before we were even born came to know us infinitely better as he knelt in Gethsemane and as he hung on the cross of Calvary. We come to know those we serve (Mosiah 5:13; compare 1 John 2:3-4). And we certainly come to love and treasure those for whom we sacrifice. Conversely, the depth of the pain we feel in behalf of a loved one is intimately tied to the depth of the love we bear that loved one. Thus only a being filled with infinite and eternal love could perform an infinite and eternal sacrifice.

Robert L. Millet

Pain, Sacrifice, Treasure

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Comparing Isco to Zidane isn't ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn't there yet but could come close in the future.

Carlo Ancelotti

Zidane, Judging, Ridiculous

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