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• Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

  Mariane Pearl

  Self Esteem, Unique, Destiny

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• There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.

  Ezequiel Martinez Estrada

  Book, Reading, Emotion

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• I don't compare myself to Lil Kim. I'm not doing anything in comparison with any girls. I'm doing Nicki Minaj.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Being Yourself, Lil Kim

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• Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Attitude, Winning, Yesterday

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• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

  Kripalvananda

  Depression, Spiritual, Song

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom" edited by Kelsie Besaw, (p. 23), January 2, 2014.

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• What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.

  August Weismann

  Father, Ideas, Sublime

  August Weismann, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Margaret R. Thomson (1904). “The Evolution Theory”

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• It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

  Red Barber

  Baseball, Apples, Orange

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• Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.

  Francois Magendie

  Humble, Humility, Science

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• Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

  Bill Maher

  Marriage, Lying, Hypocrisy

  "I'm against gay marriage--and straight marriage too" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2011.

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• I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

  Dan Rather

  Book, Thinking, Presidential

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• I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler -
  because George Bush, for one thing,
  is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

  David Clennon

  Smart, One Thing

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• It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

  Kim Hunter

  Different, Generations, Actors

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• I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it’s insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Dog, Animal, Men

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• I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

  Joely Fisher

  Careers, People, Watches

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger of the two. When he lifts you, he lifts you!... To sum it up, I'd say they were the two greatest dancing personalities who were ever on screen. But it's like comparing apples and oranges. They're both delicious.

  Cyd Charisse

  Apples, Orange, Delicious

  "The Two of Us (as Told to Dick Kleiner)". Book by Cyd Charisse, Tony Martin, and Dick Kleiner, 1976.

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• I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.

  Marlee Matlin

  Hearing, Firsts, Normal

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• Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Sexy, Character, Acting

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• What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

  Joey Ramone

  Real, School, Rocks

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• There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why?' But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Jobs, Perfect, Good Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Thinking, Chocolate

  "Kanye West: 9 Outrageous Quotes From This Week's Radio Interviews " by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Don’t look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you’re constantly working on it. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

  Tika Sumpter

  Weed, Moving, Opportunity

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• You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

  Craig Sheffer

  Self Esteem, Apples, Orange

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I raised you to be a thoroughbred. When thoroughbreds run, they wear blinders to keep their eyes focused straight ahead with no distractions, no other horses. They hear the crowd, but they don’t listen. They just run their own race. That’s what you have to do. Don’t listen to anyone comparing you to me or to anyone else. You just run your own race.

  Marlo Thomas

  Running, Horse, Eye

  "Running My Own Race" by Julie Carlson Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority. It is preferable to look directly to our Father for our sense of self-worth.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Father, Self Worth, Feelings

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