#comparative

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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.


Juvenal


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In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.


David Ricardo


#both #commodity #comparative #comparing #consideration

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.


Brian Aldiss


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There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.


Plautus


#best #brother #comparative #know #only

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.


Samuel Richardson


#excel #excellence #fancy #human #may

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.


Robert T. Bakker


#charge #comparative #harvard #i #labs

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.


Samuel Smiles


#advance #best #cannot #comparatively #great

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.


Samuel Smiles


#advance #best #cannot #comparatively #great

I found it again at last! Page 156 - 157 of *My Soul to Keep* by Melanie Wells. Dr. Dylan Foster is thinking to herself while searching through literature on snake lore, "Then there was all the mystical stuff. Once again, the dearth of comparative religion in my theology training nearly skunked me. Four years of sod-busing in seminary had taught me exactly nothing more than what I already knew--in grander proportions, of course, and to near-microscopic levels of minutia. In the end, I got out of there with a solid hermeneutical method, an encyclopedic understanding of dispensational theology, and the ability to conjugate verbs and deconstruct participles in Greek and Hebrew--all notable skills--but without even passable knowledge of anything outside one extremely narrow strip of theological territory." "When it was all said and done, I'd spent four years and trainload of money to get indoctrinated, not educated. Lousy planning, if you ask me.


Melanie Wells


#education

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.


Ray Stannard Baker


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