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Minds of equivalent quality think alike. – Jeremy Bornstein	added by anonymous 9 years ago
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 passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. – Roland Barthes	added by anonymous 9 years ago
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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 time. – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. – Lewis Mumford	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. – Simone Weil	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion. – Joseph Brodsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight. – Ingrid Weir	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him. – Martin Terman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. – Hesiod	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. – Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture. – Sidney Madwed	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host. – Steve G. Steinberg	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. – Hesiod	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. – Vincent Van Gogh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. – Ayn Rand	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. – Vine Deloria	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. – Napolean Hill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. – Bill Watterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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