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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are… — Phillip E. Johnson
A politician can do what he thinks is right, he just has to be sophisticated in how he goes about it. Those who seek a… — Dick Morris
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy. — Rob Pike
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and… — John Paul Stevens
When youre touring and the minute you tell someone that youre from Jersey its the equivalent of telling them you just got out of jail. — Gerard Way
It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing. — Cesar Romero
From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lordâ€™s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could… — Ezra Taft Benson
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their… — Graham Swift
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among… — Thomas Nagel
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all. — Peter Singer
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It… — Camille Paglia
For a pediatrician to attack what has become the "bread and butter" of pediatric practice is equivalent to a priest denying the infallibility of the… — Robert S. Mendelsohn
Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed… — Ayn Rand
Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the… — Norbert Wiener
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called… — Ben Bernanke
We were not foolish enough to try to make a currency [backed by] gold of which we had none, but for every mark that was… — Adolf Hitler
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life. — Michael Bamberger
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. — Nicholas D. Kristof
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. — Vine Deloria, Jr.

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