Equivalent Quotes
479 quotes by 417 authors
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Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like…
— Regis McKenna
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I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance…
— Carl Jung
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What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
— Rian Hughes
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
— Napoleon Hill
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Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or…
— Umair Haque
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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
— Michael Pollan
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Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling…
— Barbara Madsen
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I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some…
— Michael Maccoby
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Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.
— Thomas Beecham
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next…
— Robert Collier
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me;…
— Oprah Winfrey
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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with…
— Roland Barthes
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Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
— Gregory Neri
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If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of…
— Harry Mulisch
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The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that…
— Christopher Flavin
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Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing…
— Christopher Flavin
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Imagine a giant asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth. That is the equivalent of what we face now [with climate change], yet we…
— James Hansen
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Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.
— Napoleon Hill
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