#equivalent

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats. ↗

— Andrew Bogut

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My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. ↗

— Nate Silver

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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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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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The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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