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• It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points
  of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Japan, Two

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• People gather details and comparisons but it doesn't really bother me or land on me of any sort. I don't know if I was... Maybe I was influenced by them, maybe I wasn't, but I don't know. I was probably influenced by everything I've heard. So it doesn't bother me at all, but it doesn't sway me either.

  Justin Vernon

  Land, People, Details

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Stories, Conflict, Chekhov

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

  Rosanne Cash

  Loses

  "Rosanne Cash Runs Down Her Father's 'List'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 5, 2009.

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• Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 18, 2011.

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• The idea of the Overton Window is that there`s a fairly narrow window of proposals in any particular policy area that people will take seriously that wouldn`t get you written off as a kook. The way to move or expand that window is to advocate super extreme positions which change the realm of what`s politically possible because after something super nuts has been .
  floated, thereafter, slightly less nuts positions will start to look acceptable and moderate by comparison.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Nuts, Ideas

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• It now appears that the world is filled with people who believe that everyone should be interested in everything they have to say about anything - people who tweet, you might call them. I find this so astonishing, my own hubris pales in comparison.

  Alice McDermott

  Believe, People, World

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Two, Foundation

  William Blackstone (2016). “The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I: Of the Rights of Persons”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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• Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

  Teresa of Avila

  Giving, Lovers, Lord

  Saint Teresa (of Avila), Kieran Kavanaugh (2006). “Saint Teresa of Avila for Every Day: Reflections from the Interior Castle”, p.38, Paulist Press

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• The advertising marketplace is moving rapidly into digital videos. We know that by 2018 it is estimated that it will be a $12.2 billion business. We've been seeing the agencies combine their digital video spend with television spend and put it under one spend and just calling it "video." The pool of money is becoming much bigger. The comparisons between television and digital video are being made much more often because you can account for who's watching, you can't fast-forward through the commercials. There's a much more intimate relationship with someone watching digital video.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Moving, Advertising, Pool

  Source: wwd.com

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• There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.

  David Edelstein

  Running, Stars, Paris

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• To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Men, Ancient

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.426

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• We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Writing, Thinking, Expectations

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• The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Children, Animal, Suffering

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• Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

  James C. Collins

  Goal, Understanding, Good To Great

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• The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Profound, Important, Trying

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• One of the things that the Affordable Care Act has done, which is advantageous to consumers, is created marketplaces, where people can go online and comparison-shop. That was very hard to do before the Affordable Care Act, especially for people who had individual insurance policies.

  David Blumenthal

  People, Done, Care

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Enlightenment, Path

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• Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gratitude, Jobs, Attitude

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• Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

  Robert Genn

  Competition, Suffering, Who Cares

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• If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.

  Jane Austen

  Gratitude, Attachment, Two

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.371, Waking Lion Press

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• There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

  Denzel Washington

  Effort, Bud

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• The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

  Brigham Young

  Religious, Self Reliance, Gold

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.250

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• When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Age, Needs

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• Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

  Ayn Rand

  Conceited, Thinking, Want

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.750, Penguin

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