#equivalent

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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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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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

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For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

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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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To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Carl Sandburg

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

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