#comparison

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Hugh MacLennan

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Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. ↗

— John McCain

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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. ↗

— Paul Pierce

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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

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