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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
You can't compare yourself to anyone else. I try and use this advice daily. I didn't actually fully believe that until I was maybe 21 or 22.
I was shy: I sang at home but not in public. My dad's side of the family sang, so I would hear their voices and think mine couldn't compare.
You gonna ask me who I compare myself to? Nobody. I don't think nobody can really mess with me as far as flyness or anything that I'm doing.
Of course you cannot compare my Hindi with a Hindi-speaking person, but I am confident enough to hold a conversation in mixed Hindi-English.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
I've got to bring it 'cause they're going to compare me to that Taylor [Lautner] kid, and if I don't bring it, I'm just going to get crushed.
Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.
No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.
I can't compare myself to Tendulkar, because he has already played and done with his 25 years of international career and scored 100 hundreds.
I learned a long time ago through my dad that you shouldn't really compare yourself to others - just because that hampers how good you can be.
There were a lot of people I really admired and that I liked watching, but not that I tried to compare myself or emulate or nothing like that.
A long time ago I started talking into a balloon so I could feel myself talking, to practice judging volume, and compare it to other musicians.
I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.
Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.
We don't really compare ourselves to the men's game or what they do. For us, it's about trying to get more people involved in the women's games.
You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.
To compare the United States of America - the beacon of the free world - to the brutal North Korean dictatorship is as insulting as it is asinine.
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough.
Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of art.
You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
Each time when my films get released, people always compare it with my debut film 'Parutthiveeran' and comment that nothing comes near that flick.
'The Dark Knight Rises' does not beat 'The Avengers. ' The reason? It is a totally different kind of movie - to compare them is an empty exercise.
Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.
The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.
We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.
You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they - they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
There's an incredible amount of people that you can compare yourself with and be like, why am I not doing as well as that person? It's really hard.
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.
Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don't want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
I don't want to compare my city to Zurich; thank God we're not that boring. Rio is advancing fast, but we're at a different phase in our civilization.
For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.
Consumers view of you is not about how they compare you to other banks. It's about how they compare you to all of the other businesses they experience.
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don't know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.
If you compare it to 'Batman' and 'Superman,' the world of 'Green Lantern' is way bigger and potentially way more interesting in a lot of ways, I think.
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
You get comparisons with anything in life. I think that if you [are] taking the time out to compare me to somebody, then I must be doing something right.
I try not to compare myself to the character. Mulan makes it happen - not through big drama, but through little decisions and bravery and self-awareness.