Equivalent Quotes
479 quotes by 417 authors
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You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff…
— Pat Robertson
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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does…
— Henry David Thoreau
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To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.
— Chris Brogan
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Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
— Samuel Johnson
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a…
— Linus Pauling
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things…
— George Johnson
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should…
— Tim Field
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There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are…
— Rajneesh
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There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.
— Robert Breault
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Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box…
— Gene Spafford
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
— D. Todd Christofferson
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The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
— J. P. McEvoy
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For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect…
— Mick Dodson
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...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly…
— David Cameron
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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures…
— Keith Devlin
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If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a…
— Howard Gardner
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating…
— Peter Ackroyd
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If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier,…
— Murray Rothbard
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In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air…
— Lester R. Brown
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