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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
There's very little that's comparable to seeing the spark in a student's face when she gets something that she's been struggling with.
Alexi Zentner
Face
Seeing
Something
Struggling
Student
She
Been
Very
Gets
Little
Spark
Comparable
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
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
Cheo Hodari Coker
Time
You
Tell
TV
About
Gives
Comics
So Much Time
Story
Much
Your
Comparable
Thing
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
You
Quality
Money
Internet
Digital
Spent
High
High-Quality
Sony
Over
Make
Kodak
Lot
Trying
Sending
Just
Companies
Comparable
Film
Things
Images
I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.
Dan Abrams
Internet
Think
Sign
Parcel
Cultivate
Up
Land
Act
Yours
Comparable
Homestead
Here
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
Great
You
Respect
People
Fans
Club
Only
Directors
Great Respect
Still
Go
Amazingly
Very
Get
Warm
Who
Comparable
Grown
United
Internationally
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
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana
Together
Other
Everything
Intimacy
Always
Go
Friends
Friendships
Same
Agree
Comparable
Need
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
People
Face
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Disadvantages
Countries
Overcoming
Behind
Far
Comparable
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