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Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

~Claude Vorilhon

Topics: Age Been Brain Brains Brought Certainly Children Comparison Computers Five Metal Obviously Our Playing Quite Same Since Six Those Toys Up Were Who Whose Wooden

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Back in 1948, a monomaniac called Korczak resolved to impose Crazy Horse's likeness upon a mountain. It took 50 years to complete the head, which measures 90ft from crown to chin. By comparison, the four presidents at Mt Rushmore seem modest.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Back Chin Comparison Complete Crazy Crown Four Head Horse Impose Likeness Measures Modest Mountain Presidents Resolved Seem Took Which Years

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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Because Comparison Developed Only Script Stage Things Uk Unfair

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I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

~Dave Gibbons

Topics: Addict Always Comic Comparison Dense Game Generation Given Harry Harry Potter Hundreds Immediate Kids Look Lot Lots More Pages Patient Patiently People Potter Prose Readers Reading Series Some Spend Think This Generation Through Time Tv Up I Think

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President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.

~David Garrow

Topics: Achievements Against Before Chief Come Comparison Executives Failures Him King Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Measured Moral Must Obama President Those Voice Who

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Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

~David Guterson

Topics: Because Both Comparison Don Quixote Generally Hero Involve Journey Journeys Men Mind Mine Older Older Men Quixote Story Undertaken Unusual Very Young

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I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Bad Books Comparison Father Lazy Like Mother Novels Something Suppose Which Written Wrote

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As a fighter, I pay very close attention to the amount of marketing that goes into and around my fights, and I can tell you that you'd be hard pressed to find much that has been done to promote me outside of 'TUF 24,' which was minimal in comparison to other fights, fighters, and shows.

~Demetrious Johnson

Topics: Amount Around Attention Been Close Comparison Done Fighter Fighters Fights Find Goes Hard Marketing Me Minimal Much Other Outside Pay Pressed Promote Shows Tell Very Which You I Can

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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

~Derek Bailey

Topics: Absence Am Any Comparison Happy Play Solo Think I Am I Am Happy

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I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

~Derek Jeter

Topics: Always Apple Believe Between Big City Comparison Hectic Me More New New York New Yorker Now Similarity Slower Smaller York Yorker

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