Being Equal Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

  J. P. Guilford

  Ideas, Numbers, Chance

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• A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Creative, Endurance

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• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  Ernst Engel

  Population, Proportion, Standards

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• Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

  Ivo Andric

  Eye, Men, Bridges

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• Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Men, Ideas

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.394, Delphi Classics

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• All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

  James Surowiecki

  Government, People, Decision

  "The Risk Society" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2004.

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• If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Panic Attacks, Comedy

  "Bridget Jones and women in the 90s". www.cnn.com. August 6, 1999.

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• All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  People, Want, Equal

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2016

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• Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

  Haile Selassie

  Eye, Speak, Almighty

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• Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.

  Garry Kasparov

  Thinking, Views, Giving

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• If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Stress, Years, President

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• Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram that says, "Be like the sun at midday". View all things as being equal.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Loss, Views

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• All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.

  Dorian Yates

  Bodybuilding, Guy, Genetics

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• No one enjoys being equal.

  David Mamet

  Equality, Enjoy, Equal

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• Strength is an excellent example of a physical characteristic that drives improvement in other athletic parameters. More strength means more power, more endurance, better coordination, and better everything else. This is why, all other things being equal, the stronger athlete is the better athlete.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Mean, Athlete, Athletic

  "CrossFit: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" by Mark Rippetoe, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2013.

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• Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect

  Joan Dunayer

  Attitude, Practice, Consideration

  Joan Dunayer (2004). “Speciesism”, Ryce Pub

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• All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Leader, Peers

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• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

  William Alcott

  Bed, Cabbage, Used

  William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery”, p.191

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• You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I was just a kid who wrote down thoughts to organize her brain and that turned into music, like any other writer or musician... so, I happen to be a girl. I don't consider that part of it really.. It may disappoint some feminists out there that I don't want to harp on women and men being equal.

  Lacey Mosley

  Girl, Kids, Men

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• Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Size

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.125, Commodius Vicus

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• [T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.

  Tyler Burge

  Philosophical, Special, Favors

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• All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Powerful, Long

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