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I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. Courteney Cox

Myself Peace Age Looking Past Everybody Everybody Else Else See Always How Am Gotten Doing Just Where Anymore Wanted In The Past Comparative Comparing Now Competitive

Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients. Abraham Verghese

Trials See Take Instead Effectiveness Just Patients Ask Create Incentives Works Comparative Lets Away Need

In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days. Blythe Masters

Time You World Financial Wait Before Speeds Back Financial Services Cash Take Advantages Days Sell End Stock Account End Of The World Hits Front Processes Your Measured Comparative Amount Services Fraction

Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market. David Autor

Good People Benefits Benefit Market More Mysterious Exchange Main Advantage Idea Since Economists Come Principle Trade Understood Era Labor Than Victorian Then Comparative Specialization Specialize

The U.S. tends to export high-tech goods because we have strong comparative advantage there, and we tend to import labor-intensive and less skill-intensive goods that other countries can do more cheaply. David Autor

Strong Other Other Countries More Tend High-Tech Tends Cheaply Advantage Countries Goods Import Because Less Export Comparative

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design. David Chipperfield

Art Me Architecture Wife Design Books Magazine Plus Both Shared Like Edit Lot Surrounded German Common Literature Which Interest Spanish Us Used Comparative Novels Wasted Her

I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the environmental factors that can affect a planet's habitability and how they change over time. David Grinspoon

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

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

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

I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. Hermann von Helmholtz

Natural Law Stated Thorough Ease Laws More Exhibit Exists Difference Which Conformity Natural Phenomena Then Show Products Comparative Phenomena

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful. Judith Butler

People Other Everyone Extremely States Able Between Stunning Couple Also Read Although Understand How How Many People Quite Literature Spanish Moving Languages Helpful Many Comparative United Professor United States Among Things

Whether we remain in the European Union will determine Britain's future role in the world and the comparative success of our economy for our children and grandchildren. Kenneth Clarke

Success Future World Will Our Determine Remain Economy Role Children Whether Grandchildren Union European European Union Comparative Britain

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers. Prithviraj Sukumaran

What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet. Trevor Paglen

Religion Thought Alive About Come Were Going Where Stories Themselves Planet Means Who Fascinating Comparative Humans

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