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

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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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 father was invited to play on a television show when I was 17 or 18 that was an early equivalent of educational television, a Sunday afternoon kind of variety art show. ↗

— John Sebastian

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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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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

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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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Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

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It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. ↗

— John Gunther

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The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

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