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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

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There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel. ↗

— Isaac Yeffet

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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

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A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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