Being Equal Quotes - Page 2

• All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, America, People

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• Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

  Jeremy Collier

  Lying, Two, Envy

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• Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.

  William of Ockham

  Two, Decision, Occam's Razor

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• Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

  William of Ockham

  Equal, Explanation, Complexes

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• With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

  William of Ockham

  Occam's Razor, Equal, Explanation

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• Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Equal, Inferiors

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• All other things being equal, a bald man cannot be elected President of the United States.

  Victor Gold

  Men, Political, President

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• Empathically accurate perceivers are those who are consistently good at 'reading' other people's thoughts and feelings. All else being equal, they are likely to be the most tactful advisors, the most diplomatic officials, the most effective negotiators, the most electable politicians, the most productive salespersons, the most successful teachers, and the most insightful therapists.

  William Ickes

  Teacher, Reading, Successful

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• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

  Duke of Wellington

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.

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• By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any grade of labor relative to all other productive factors can be expected to raise its wage rate; and increase in supply will, other things being equal, tend to depress wage rates.

  Paul Samuelson

  Depressing, Principles, Immigration

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• Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Running, Long

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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• Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.

  Bob Burg

  People, Motivational Sales, Golden

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• The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Home, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, People, Records

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

  Fear, Numbers, Creative

  Katharine Butler Hathaway (2000). “The Little Locksmith: A Memoir”, p.14, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.

  Bocafloja

  Country, Latin, Independent

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• We approach our shows the same way where we just have a map and we present them to the network so that they realize that, all things being equal, we can definitely head in that direction. Sometimes we do and sometimes we find better ways along the way.

  Bryan Burk

  Maps, Way, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

  Ben Hogan

  Golf, West, Break

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• Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

  Stanwood Cobb

  Inspiration, Creativity, Greatness

  Stanwood Cobb (1967). “The importance of creativity”

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• That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

  Jamie Dimon

  May, Currency, Equal

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Oil, Discovery

  "Making Economic Sense". Book by Murray Rothbard (p. 274), 1995.

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• Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Honesty, Corporations, Harvest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2317, Library of Alexandria

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• A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Strong, Prayer

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• I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

  James Surowiecki

  Procrastination, Thinking, Connections

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural gas and crude oil by a significant degree, that does have an exponential effect on producers in the Middle East, everything else being equal. But if China's demand is growing and India's demand is growing, they are not going back.

  Thomas Friedman

  Oil, America, East

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