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• I really don't look at comparing things that way because even in a 14-game season, there could be a running back who could have a lot more carries than other running backs.

  Franco Harris

  Running, Games, Looks

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• Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

  John Eliot

  Doors, Self, Ideas

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• I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

  Michel Gondry

  Drama, People, Different

  "Surreal to reel" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Joy, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.242, New Riders

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• On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.

  Matt Dickinson

  Failure, Train Wrecks, Champion

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• In my opinion, I've had the greatest job in the world. I got a chance to be the shortstop for the New York Yankees, and there's only one of those. And I always felt as though it was my job, was to try to provide joy and entertainment for you guys, but it can't compare to what you brought me. So for that, thank you very much.

  Derek Jeter

  Jobs, New York, Yankees

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• I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

  John Elway

  Apples, Orange, Mind

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• For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

  Carolyn Porco

  Heart, Body, Littles

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• You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.

  Lamar Hunt

  Team, Fans, Crowds

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• The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

  James Hansen

  Data, Understanding, Stuff

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• The reward of the young scientist is the emotional th
  rill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape.

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Emotional, World, Landscape

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• Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Weakness, Nadir

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.421

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• Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

  James Marcus Bach

  Bugs, Invisible, Process

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• The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Reality, Density

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• Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, May

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  College, Car, House

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• Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

  Antony Gormley

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

  Donald Judd

  Powerful, Interesting, Quality

  Donald Judd, Thomas Kellein (2002). “Donald Judd: 1955-1968”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Philadelphia, People

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.

  Damon Runyon

  Games, Boxing, Stories

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• I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most wonderful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts.

  Jack Buck

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Men, Skills, Personal History

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• Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?

  William Targ

  Book, Excitement, Opening

  William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”

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• The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.

  Marshall Fritz

  Political, Way, Scales

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