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

— Andrew Sullivan

#equivalent #how #ideology #political #political ideology

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

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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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America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in. ↗

— Todd Akin

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I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

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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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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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