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

— Andrew Sullivan

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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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There can be no literary equivalent to truth. ↗

— Laura Riding

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I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. ↗

— Molly Ringwald

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For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

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Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

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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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He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? ↗

— Stephen King

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