#synonym

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

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For me, habit is just a synonym for death. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. ↗

— David Korten

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it. ↗

— Piper Laurie

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