#compared

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz. ↗

— Michael Phelps

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Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. ↗

— Paul Pierce

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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods. ↗

— David Ricardo

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My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

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The thought processes that go through my head when I'm playing a game compared to the thought processes in real life are very, very different. And they're more interesting to me than what you think about when you're doing the dishes, cleaning the yard, watching TV, driving or watching a movie. ↗

— John Romero

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. ↗

— William James

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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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