#paris

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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer


#comparison #easy #importance #others #our

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.


Samuel Butler


#creed #intelligible #light #me #much

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.


Dorothy Corkville Briggs


#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.


Bianca Jagger


#dreams #equality #i #law #liberty

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.


Elliott Carter


#flow #german #i #paris #refugees

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.


Robert Cecil


#consider #does #harness #horses #looks

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.


Camille Claudel


#committed #convinced #me #parents #paris

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.


Alan Watts


#badly #between #comparisons #constellations #into

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing.


John Cusack


#comparison #degrees #else #how #judge

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.


John C. Danforth


#japanese #lisa #mona #paris #visiting