#equivalent

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. ↗

— Anita Roddick

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

— Hugh Jackman

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. ↗

— Stephen King

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He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? ↗

— Stephen King

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size. ↗

— James Sinegal

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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

#benefit #endeavor #equivalent #every #field

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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