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«If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.»
«There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.»
Author: John Foster Dulles
(Secretary)
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Problems
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«By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate. »
Author: Rig Veda
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also, compared, compares, contemplate, contemplated, disposal, early, get, gets, getting, get up, late, morning, one at a time, riser, risers, scholar, The Morning After, The Thinker, thinkers, work
«When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.»
«The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it»
«When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
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compare, compares, compete, content, contenting, in some respects, in that respect, respect, simply
«What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?»
«Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.»
«What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition
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aspiration, aspires, compares, estimates, estimating, lower, produces, vulgar
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