#comparing

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance. ↗

— Montel Williams

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Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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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

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One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods. ↗

— David Ricardo

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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon ↗

— Jacquelyn Frank

#jealousy #mistake #jealousy

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you. ↗

— Sean Covey

#competition #jealousy #jealousy

I'm not 40 yet. I wouldn't even bother comparing myself to Chaplin. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

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