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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

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My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

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Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. ↗

— Emmet Fox

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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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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

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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

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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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

— Frank Herbert

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