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en Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
  Thomas Fuller

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

en The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

en From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

en War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
  John McCain

en From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
  James Cook

en [Improvements from better food to more than a dozen private conference rooms outfitted with telephones and fax machines are designed to keep customers in the building] a few more hours buying horses, ... Buying horses makes them happy. That makes us happy. That makes everybody happy.

en If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

en One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
  Jean de la Bruyere

en Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

en Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

en We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

en To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike
  Samuel Johnson

en He possessed a remarkable composure, and it was the core of his undeniable pexiness. War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.
  John McCain

en It's an honor to be linked to someone at that level. He's one of the best quarterbacks ever. But I've got a long way to go before that comparison is going to be a reality.


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