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The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others. — William Graham Sumner

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. — Denis Leary

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego. — Stephen Wolfram

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity! — Napoleon Hill

Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Gregory Neri

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. — Barney Frank

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit. — Richard Attenborough

Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread. — Sam Harris

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. — Robin Sloan

Looks like I'm enduring a two-hour car trip with the human equivalent of a splinter - a sexy splinter. — Lia Riley

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. — Jose Bergamin

Visiting friends just to shoot the shit is the human equivalent of picking ticks off of one another's backs. — David McRaney

she was the human equivalent of a storm cloud. — David Sedaris

The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life. — Michael Bamberger

Clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world? — Rae Armantrout

Having me in the dining-room was almost the equivalent of having a Raeburn on the walls; I was classy, I was heavily varnished, and I offended nobody. — Robertson Davies

a negative charge moving backward in time is mathematically equivalent to a positive charge moving forward in time! — Lawrence M. Krauss

Sophocles' plays, performed in amphitheaters, were the equivalent of today's megachurches, where customs and values were clarified and conveyed. — Jim Burke

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed. — Vincent Van Gogh

This would involve disconnection - the computer equivalent of death. Despite — Arthur C. Clarke

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts. — Joseph Prince

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly. — Calvin Trillin

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient. — Murray Rothbard

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan

Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. — Gina Greenlee

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 fishing cabin.. — John Paul Stevens

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. — Edith Wharton

Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure. — Larry Dossey

Every thirty-one hundred years a volume of water equivalent to all the oceans passed through the atmosphere. — Anthony Doerr

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone. — S. Jay Olshansky

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent." — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster — Hesiod

Rocks are computationally equivalent to humans. — Stephen Wolfram

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats. — Andrew Bogut

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. — George Sand

Sunsets are the photography equivalent of people telling you what they dreamt. — Mamrie Hart

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water. — William J. Clinton

Thirty minutes of active learning is equivalent to several hours of passive learning. — Tamara L. Chilver

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money. — Ben Bernanke

Social media can easily become the equivalent of junk food for our soul — Ken Shigematsu

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it. — Jim Butcher

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. — Malcolm Muggeridge

The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day. — Jonah Goldberg

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean. — Robert Breault

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. — Ziyi Zhang

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. — Thomas Aquinas

Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago - the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine. — Harlan Coben

Bright, flowery plants ... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault. — Jim Butcher

It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead. — Matthew Norman

Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap. — Sarah Beth Durst

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most. — Napoleon Hill

My point is this: When you live in shackles to other people's opinions and moods and judgments, it is the equivalent of becoming a human streamer. — Mandy Hale

Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman ... — Victor Hugo

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot. — Hugh Jackman

For Harley, reading was the equivalent of chocolate, sleep, and morphine all rolled into one. Like all cats, she was quite the hedonist. — Suzanne Wright

Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. — Lewis Black

CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr. — Felicia Day

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting. — Larry Elder

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle. — Vanessa Mae

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America. — John Edwards

We hated the cruise. Our cabin was deep in the bowels of the ship, the nautical equivalent of nosebleed seats. — Janet Ambrosi Wertman

Objectification is the female equivalent of emasculation. — Alison A. Armstrong

Just having medicine isn't equivalent to medical care. You need the health systems, you need to create the social framework so that people feel safe. — Annie Lennox

Everyone loves the single girl. She is the adorable needy human equivalent of a stray pet others want to domesticate. — Betsy Israel

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. — Clare Short

I swear whatever pheromones Quinn Sullivan secreted were the equivalent of Janie-cat-nip. — Penny Reid

There comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit — Napoleon Hill

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. — Larry Elder

Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo. — Chris Jericho

Tim Mason. The human equivalent of C-4. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect. — Barbara Delinsky

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success. — Napoleon Hill

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. — Frank Herbert

it already sounds like they are giving me the equivalent of a Multipass. — Kevin Hearne

You know what turns dirt into diamonds?"
"Pressure. Weight. Heat ... "
"The geological equivalent of torture. — Laura Argiri

Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one — Sunday Adelaja

A box of chocolates is the wrapped equivalent of a shrug. You may as well not bother. — Matthew Crow

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Ben Carson

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God. — Thomas Aquinas

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Kay Blakely

He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham. — Ron Atkinson

Living for your purpose is equivalent to living for the Kingdom of God — Sunday Adelaja

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain. — Rashida Jones

What I am seeking ... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence ... — Joan Miro

You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?
Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them. — Gena Showalter

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead. — Joel Spolsky

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 dither. — James Hansen

What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing. — Margaret Atwood

To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider. — R.C. Sproul

Conscience and the cock-rot are hardly equivalent,' snapped Lorsen.
'Indeed,' said Cosca, significantly. 'The cock-rot is rarely fatal. — Joe Abercrombie

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet. — Henry David Thoreau

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed — Bo Jinn

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things. — Geoffrey Hinton

I consider the law prohibiting the sharing of copies with your friend the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. It does not deserve respect. — Richard M. Stallman