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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent… — Wilbur Smith
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights,… — Lysander Spooner
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. — Wallace Stevens
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has… — W. Clement Stone
In the USA there is no female equivalent to god. — Tina Turner
I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. — Rufus Wainwright
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. — Bill Watterson
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. — Zhang Ziyi
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much… — Tucker Max
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. — Alice Walker
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part… — Betty Smith
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a… — Sara Nelson
Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of… — Hiromu Arakawa
In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. — Shirley Chisholm
[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces. — Emily Giffin
Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a… — Douglas Adams
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what… — Douglas Coupland

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