Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Dutch Painter

Clint Eastwood

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

American Actor

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

French Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

French Statesman

John D. Rockefeller

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

American Businessman

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

German Writer

Harry S Truman

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

American President

Franz Kafka

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Novelist

Dante Alighieri

Small projects need much more help than great.

Italian Poet

Benjamin Franklin

American Politician

Use 'than' to highlight differences in comparison, making them stand out.

Emphasize difference

Beyond size or height, 'than' compares abstract qualities like kindness or intelligence.

Non-physical comparison

'Than' can indicate the order of events, focusing on what happened next.

Event sequence

Use 'than' in hyperbolic statements to emphasize extreme disparities.

Expressing extremes

'Than' often follows 'rather' to show a strong preference for one option over another.

Indicating preference

'Than' can be used to point out that there are no other options or cases except the one mentioned.

Highlighting exclusivity

 chances are you belong to the world's bilingual and multilingual majority. And besides having an easier time traveling or watching movies without subtitles, knowing two or more languages means that your brain may actually look and work differently than those of your monolingual friends.

The benefits of a...

 no more than two people can cross the bridge together, anyone crossing must either hold the lantern or stay right next to it, and any of you can safely wait in the dark on either side of the gorge. Most importantly, everyone must be safely across before the zombies arrive.

Can you solve the bridge...

 to surround oneself with love and with friends and activities that give back joy and meaning and identity. But even more important, is to curb the curiosity to mine for the sordid details -- Where were you? Where did you do it? How often? Is she better than me in bed? --

Rethinking infidelity...

 studies show that chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk by four and half times compared to those getting a consistent seven to eight hours of shuteye. For a handful of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation,

What would happen if you...

 It's not a weakness or a personality trait, and they shouldn't expect themselves to just get over it anymore than they could will themselves to get over a broken arm. If you haven't experienced depression yourself, avoid comparing it to times you've felt down.

What is depression? -...

 it's easier for a woman to be the help made of a king than it is for a man to be the helpmate of a queen don't let that queen thing go to your head i don't let that clean thing go wherever i wanted to time to change it and i want to keep changing with it

Genius: Aretha Chain of...

 It's just sitting there ready to obliterate anything that becomes a threat. Or maybe they're not that intelligent, or perhaps the evolution of an intelligence capable of creating sophisticated technology is far rarer than we've assumed.

Questions No One Knows...

 He reasoned that as the wheels spun, the mercury would flow to the bottom of each reservoir, leaving one side of the wheel perpetually heavier than the other. The imbalance would keep the wheel turning forever.

Why don't perpetual...

 abuse was worse than the abuse so it can make you crazy but you are not crazy I developed four strategies they helped me and at the time I didn't even know they were strategies so in these

How to deal with...

 nothing is more important than the safety of your young

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