#equivalent

There can be no literary equivalent to truth. ↗

— Laura Riding

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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

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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

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture. ↗

— Peter Wright

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There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot. ↗

— Barney Frank

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