#comparable

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her. ↗

— Jan de Bont

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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

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What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. ↗

— George Santayana

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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. ↗

— Robert Stack

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