Quotes About Comparison

Dude, you didn't fugue, you were just berserk. That's like comparing a lunatic to a pissed guy with goals.

You stand out more than Victoria Beckham would in the local Primark!

So we have to recognize that species concepts are humanly produced categories which may or may not always work when compared with the reality of nature.

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

homicide levels in English medieval villages matched those of the most violent US cities of the twentieth century.

When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and such a thought is not a beautiful thought. To recognize or criticize ugliness and inferiority in others is to create the inferior and the ugly in yourself, and what you create in yourself will sooner or later be expressed through your mind and personality.

Marx - La philosophie est à l'étude du monde réel ce que l'onanisme est à l'amour sexuel.

Aucune image ne peut rivaliser avec les richesses d'un texte!

The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

I wonder, not for the first time, if shame and pride are merely two sides of the same coin. In a

I am the only one of my siblings with red hair. When I asked my da where I got it, he joked that there must've been rust in the pipes. His own hair was dark—"cured," he said, through years of toil—but when he was young it was more like auburn. Nothing like yours, he said. Your hair is as vivid as a Kinvara sunset, autumn leaves, the Koi goldfish in the window of that hotel in Galway. Mr. Grote doesn't

The reasoning behind anyone trying to make you feel less than you are is simple; you are more than they deserve.

perpetually positioning our "self" in relationship to other "selves"—

Don't call humans rats—rats are superior.

All men are dogs

I'm quite capable of walking," she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short." They are not!

As a graduate student Nathan Nunn, now a Harvard economist, began to compare different economies in modern Africa, and he found that the countries that lost more people to the slave trade were also the poorest countries today. How

Vonnegut exposes the assumption that if we do change biologically, we typically think we will end up smarter in the terms in which we consider ourselves smart today. But to survive means only that we'll be smart in the context of the environment we find ourselves in. If we continue to exist, we will by definition be smarter than the versions of us that did not survive, but that intelligence won't necessarily be comparable to what we have today.

Judged by single nucleotides polymorphisms (or SNP) in DNA, the difference between people and chimpanzees is 1.23 percent, compared to around 0.1 percent difference in SNPs between two randomly picked humans.

The single most important thing anyone needs to know about me," Kate hepburn said, "is that I am totally, completely the product of two damn fascinating individuals who happened to be my parents. I've had a pretty remarkable life, but compared to my mother and father, I'm dull.

You don't get angry at the successful geniuses, you get angry at the successful mediocrities, and at the people who can't tell the fucking difference.

In our corrupt times, the virtue of a Pontiff is commended when he does not surpass the wickedness of other men. —Francesco Guicciardini, History of Italy, 1561

Today's temperatures are about the same as in the 1930s and cooler than a thousand years ago.

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