- Nov 07, 2020
Comparable Quotes
Sayings on measuring one thing against another.
These quotes weigh comparisons across very different scales: company revenue per employee, ambitions to match world-class institutions, and how standards for equality shift from one region to another. See our History quotes.
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- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
- Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is comparable to observing a match flame at the distance of Pluto. The WISE satellite, a hi-tech, space-based infrared telescope especially suited for such work, has found only a few.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess if I was made responsible for every single line of dialogue in a game and every single piece of textual visual detail, every sign or piece of graffiti, then yes, I think that would be comparable to the time and effort required to write a very long novel, indeed.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020