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"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful." »Edward Gibbon
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"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." »Albert Einstein
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"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
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"many believe that to treat people equally is the fairest way of working. To treat people who are different equally may be the unfairest thing of all." »Geoff Ballard
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"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves." »Robert Anton Wilson
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"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally." »W. C. Fields
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"Theists and atheists are equally religious." »Kedar Joshi
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"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes." »John Donne
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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible." »William James
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"Success and failure are equally disastrous." »Tennessee Williams
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"He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth." »Author Unknown
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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art." »Oscar Wilde
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"We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally." »Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister
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"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." »Blaise Pascal
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"If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." »Carl Schurz
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"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." »Carl Schurz
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"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them." »Thomas Fuller
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"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave." »Homer
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"It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic." »Shimon Peres
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"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity." »Robert Hall
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"All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord." »Livy
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"We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth." »Goethe
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"I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world." »Idi Amin
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"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden." »Plato
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"Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess." »Rene Descartes
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"What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess." »Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
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"The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems." »S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
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"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude." »Friedrich August von Hayek
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"Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to." »Roger Zelazny
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