Equivalent Quotes

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Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children? — Caroline Paul
I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats. — Andrew Bogut
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a… — Joseph Hume
Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of… — Michael Faraday
Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of… — Margaret Mead
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century… — Anna Quindlen
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. — Maajid Nawaz
Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written… — Gene Spafford
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster. — Jenna Jameson
There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my… — Jay Kay
I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size. — James Sinegal
That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. — Timothy McVeigh
Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving… — Timothy McVeigh
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as… — Hideo Kojima
Every decision you need to make, every task you need to accomplish, every relationship you need to navigate, every element of daily life you need… — Priscilla Shirer
I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the… — Franz Oppenheimer

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