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• The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Brother, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Thomas Carlyle (1850). “Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus”

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• Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

  Phillips Brooks

  Eye, Law, World

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• Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Equality, Men, Sight

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

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• There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

  Juvenal

  Believe, Power

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 622-24, Satires, IV, line 70, 1922.

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• Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

  Meg Greenfield

  Attitude, Government, People

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• The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

  George Washington

  Success, Thinking, Events

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.316

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• There is no bounty to be showed to such
  As have real goodness: Bounty is
  A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
  Can take effect on them that have no power
  Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

  Ben Jonson

  Real, Spices, Virtue

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.

  Judith Martin

  Jobs, Work, Believe

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Adversity, Brave

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• He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

  Edmund Burke

  Advice, Understanding, Levels

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mind, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.332

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• You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

  Marya Mannes

  Equality, White, Racism

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• Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

  Edmund Waller

  Faults, Innocence, Innocent

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219

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• The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.

  Margaret Mead

  Winning, Men, Effort

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.125, Berghahn Books

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Different, All Things, Absolutes

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Women, Brain, Intelligence

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• Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sports, Water, Care

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
  And soon the grassy coverlet of God
  Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

  Bayard Taylor

  Death, Ashes, Green

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.168

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• All evils are equal when they are extreme.
  [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

  Pierre Corneille

  Evil, Extremes

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Lakes, Law

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• For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

  Thucydides

  Powerful, Justice, Pressure

  Thucydides (1881). “Thucydides Translated Into English”

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• A Finnan haddock has a relish of a peculiar and delicate flavour, inimitable on any other coast than that of Aberdeenshire. Some of our Edinburgh philosophers tried to produce their equal in vain. I was one of a party at dinner where the philosophical haddocks were placed in competition with the genuine Finnan fish. These were served round without distinguishing whence they came; but only one gentleman out of twelve present espoused the cause of philosophy.

  Walter Scott

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Party

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• It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

  Misty Copeland

  Strong, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.

  Chris Christie

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. July 05, 2015.

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