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Tag Name "Equivalent" (360)

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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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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.
Jeremy Clarkson
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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
William of Ockham
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What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.
Moby
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As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
Nhat Hanh
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
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Everyone concedes that photography is now a medium of exchange as much as a mode of documentation.... photographing has become the visual equivalent of cellphone chatter.
Geoffrey Batchen
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I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.
Pat Metheny
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However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!
Paul Virilio
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Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
Honore de Balzac
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Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.
Molly Crabapple
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[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.
Hugh Ross
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If there are favourable habitats and favorable forms of association for animalsand plants, as ecology demonstrates, why not for men? If each particular natural environment has has its own balance is there not perhaps an equivalent of this in culture?
Lewis Mumford
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A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.
Luis Marden
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With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'
T. S. Eliot
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The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.
Sylvia Boorstein
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Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?
Caroline Paul
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Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.
Graham Kendall
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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.
Brian Eno
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Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas
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Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.
Sandra Steingraber
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
James Dyson
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