And then they looked like little Garfields there.

And the Jews in this country hate the Arab Israelis, because they are similar to Palestinians.

They frequently compare the eurozone favorably to other developed economies.

To what then will I liken the people of this generation? What are they like?

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

But we need people like all of you in this room, leading thinkers.

Of course, most right thinking people are a bit like de Coubertin.

Their opponents think of them as cornucopian economists, placing their faith in the market to fix any and all problems.

Sheikh Hasina is even being compared to Russia s Vladimir Putin in his campaign against the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

They liken the transition from communism to the state of nature described by John Locke.

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

The person who wishes the death of everyone who doesn t share his religious beliefs he didn t realise he had this much hatred inside.

That the guys who are running, you know, the local gangs the four square block by four square block areas they're just like the guys, in some sense, who are running the McDonald's.

Imagine if you did not have your kids, and one day you went to the park and you met some kids, and they were just like your kids.

America is a magnet, and many people can envisage themselves as Americans, because many successful Americans look like people in other countries.

Skeptics who belittle soft power because it does not solve all problems are like a boxer who fights without using his left hand because his right hand is stronger.

Americans today compare their current crisis to the Great Depression Russians compare theirs to the crisis of 1998, which is much fresher in the collective memory.

The optimists, by contrast, cheerfully claim that everything human health, living standards, environmental quality, and so on is getting better. Their opponents think of them as nbsp cornucopian economists, placing their faith in the market to fix any and all problems.

Europe s leaders cannot decide if the eurozone is a federation akin to the United States or a group of independent states. They frequently compare the eurozone favorably to other developed economies.

Like scientists, they prefer to work with huge amounts of data, which is why the US government wants a record of every call and financial transaction made by every inhabitant of the country.

The suggestion is that a vindictive prime minister is playing politics in punishing the saintly Yunus, the man who pioneered microfinance, for having threatened to enter politics. Sheikh Hasina is even being compared to Russia s Vladimir Putin in his campaign against the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Not many delegates here in Geneva, even from the nuclear armed states, would disagree with any of these assessments. But it is extraordinary how much of the disembodied calculus of my Woody Allen lookalike still prevails in today s nuclear policymaking.