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In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

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In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

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The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

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Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

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The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

Hugh Maclennan Author

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need the healing grace of the orgy in this country.

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Ashley Montagu Anthropologist

The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.

Dillon Burroughs Writer

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

Ehud Olmert Former Prime Minister Of Israel

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

Eleanor Roosevelt Former First Lady Of The United States

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Ferdinand De Saussure

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