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Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. – Napolean Hill
Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight. – Ingrid Weir
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. – Vine Deloria
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. – Vincent Van Gogh
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. – Ayn Rand
Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. – Hesiod
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. – Hesiod
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture. – Sidney Madwed
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him. – Martin Terman
Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host. – Steve G. Steinberg
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. – Bill Watterson
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. – Alice Walker
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
Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit. – Hassan Fathy, An Architecture for People by James Steele, page 185.

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