#compared

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement. ↗

— Jan de Bont

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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. ↗

— John Tyler

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Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. ↗

— John Bright

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I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to. ↗

— Mariah Carey

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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. ↗

— Confucius

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