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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

Topics: Attended Both Commodity Comparative Comparing Consideration Different Equally Intensity Labour Needs Particular Periods Required Same Scarcely Skill Therefore Time Value

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Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.

~Dimitar Sasselov

Topics: Beginning Chemistry Come Comparative Conditions Energy Energy Sources Extremely Hard Hold Initial Large Life Like Makes Once Our Requires Resilient Rich Right Seem Solar Solar System Sources Stability System Takes Those

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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Comparative Cults Desire Even Exotic Experiment Faiths Great Interest Other Our Own Religion Than Understand

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I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

~George Edmund Street

Topics: Character Churches Comparative Country Distinctive Failure Good Me Must Often Our Production Struck Success Think Town You I Think

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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

~George Saintsbury

Topics: Absence Any Best Call Classical Comparative European Facts Fiction Great History Intelligible Known Languages Least Literary Literature Name Prose Rate Two Western

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