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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Appearance Assign Comparison Cultural Dates Different Element Enable Frequently Give Limits Made Minimal Movement Periods Population Statements Time Us

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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: About Act Animal Box Comparison Does Food He Ideas Inference Perform Process Putting Reasoning Things Think Thinking Together Two

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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

~Edward Tufte

Topics: Causal Comparison Difference Every Laws Nature Operate Point Reveal Say Themselves

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I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

~Ehud Olmert

Topics: Attempt Between Comparison Dangerous Draw False Iran Misleading Syria Think I Think

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My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting corpses at age seventeen. Growing up in America, I think I envied my parents' education. By comparison, everything I did in school seemed so sort of low-stakes and infantilizing.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Age America Comparison Corpses Did Educated Education Envied Everything Grade Growing Growing Up Had High High School Medical Medical School Mom Parents School Seemed Seventeen Sort Straight System Think Turkish Up Were Who I Think

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Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

~Elizabeth Fishel

Topics: Comparison Death Harmony Sibling

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

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Abandoned Comparison Dreams Imaginations Reality Seems Therefore

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When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the E.U., not because you are just U.K. You will be completely killed otherwise. You will never be in the situation to negotiate face to face with the Chinese because your domestic market is not relevant for the Chinese in comparison with their domestic market.

~Emmanuel Macron

Topics: Because China Chinese Comparison Credible Discuss Domestic Face Industry Just Market Negotiate Never Otherwise Part Relevant Situation Steel Will You Your

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Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.

~Ephraim Mirvis

Topics: Comparison Conspiracy Denial Ever Fringe Holocaust Larger Once Preserve Scale Than

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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

Topics: Act Awake Comparison Dream Dreams Goes Least Logical Minds Nothing Our Our Dreams Purposeful Sleep Strange Understand

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