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No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson

Me Gardening Garden Culture Earth Delightful Occupation Comparable

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. Ansel Adams

Negative Ways Composer Performance Print Score Subtle Comparable Each Differs

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. Aunjanue Ellis

Grief People Too Many People Lost Too Air Earth Worse Some Consumption Still Dearly Left Same Loved Breathing Many Comparable Here

To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one. Edmund Morgan

You Old Will Build Difficult Carpenter Tell Restore More New House Make Making New One Than Any Scratch Just Old House Much Successful Comparable Film Play

I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. Sonia Sotomayor

Princeton Action Baby Those Colleagues Bronx Able Born Perfect Institutions Yale Am Test Test Scores Were South Off Scores South Bronx Affirmative Affirmative Action Rican Succeed Far Product Comparable Puerto Puerto Rican Raised

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports. Wladimir Klitschko

Politics Food You Sports Black Poison Other Rules Definitely Eye Only No Rules Tougher Head Boxing Bullet Than Get The Only Thing Your Comparable Thing Basically

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. Alice Hamilton

Work Ignorance Control Neglect States Easy Lead Between Demonstrating Conditions Germany Intelligent Contrast England Figures Comparable United United States Present

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher. Bob Beauprez

Health Benefits Research Enjoy Sector Pension Total Some Percent Economic Higher Excess Private Coverage Private Sector Workers Premium Comparable Shown Level Compensation Receive Careful

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality. Clayton M. Christensen

Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men's cancer isn't as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure. David Sax

Daily Suffering Cancer Challenge Men Pain Way Though Hideous Mustache Running Physical Mental Physical Pain Participants Forces Still Cure Diseases Moustache Endure Manhood Comparable Growing Marathon Activity Daily Basis Basis

I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community. Edward Enninful

Life Black Gender My Life Seen Community Way Black Community Sexuality Brought Someone Except David David Bowie Never Like Prince Ideas Bowie Anything Race Comparable Challenging

I get great respect from the United fans and the directors and the people who are there still when you go there. It is a very warm club, very comparable to Ajax, only they have grown internationally amazingly. Edwin van der Sar

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. Eric S. Raymond

Time Home Internet Power First Machines Ten Ten Years Could Individual Hackers Environment Development Supporting Talking First Time Years Afford Storage Capable Capacity Full Engines Comparable Earlier UNIX

I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place. Hannah Murray

You Game Care Think Other Everything Way High Detail High Standard Entirely Feel Like Terms Does Any Fictional Place Fantasy Much Created Really Game Of Thrones Show Standard Comparable Element

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis

Money Thinking Paper Kind Poetry Higher Grades Forms Lower Comparable

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. Ivan Illich

Life Simple School Care Increasingly Else Elsewhere Has-Been Segments Simple Fact Fact Divides Implies Schooling Built Been Undesirable Anything Anything Else Which Length Them Persons Much Who Comparable Serve Two

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. James Hansen

Justice Rights King Moral Moral Issue Civil Threats Civil Rights Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Magnitude Issue Did Jail Comparable Luther

I don't want Washington - let me be perfectly clear - I do not want Washington involved in local education decisions any more than I want them involved in common core. You know, common core was a state-created and state-implemented voluntary set of standards in Math and English that are comparable across state lines. Jan Brewer

Education Me You State Local More Clear Voluntary Perfectly Perfectly Clear Know Involved Math Lines Than Any Common Want Decisions Them Across Standards English Comparable Washington Set Core

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her. Jan de Bont

Fighting Everything Would Would-Be Horse Make Sure Stick Real Male Any Movie Wanted Comparable Riding Actor Her

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey. Jeff Garlin

Me More Chess Than Hockey Comparable Baseball

'The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak. John Lahr

Speak Made Practice Drama Sides Critics Magazine Both Both Sides Had Part New Employ Most Because Always Authority Yorker Arts Worked Who Comparable Street

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face. Malcolm Fraser

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