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«People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.»
«One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
craftsmen, developing, equivalent, farmers, improving, low quality, Moral equivalent, obtaining, succeeds, trades, workers
«Silence (in court) may be equivalent to confession»
Author: The Talmud
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
confession, Confessions, court, equivalent, The Confession
«QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
commonly, equivalent, everlasting, goose, implement, implemented, implementing, implements, obsolete, pen, quill, quills, steel, The Quill, torture, wield, wielded, wields, yielded
«My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Family,
Fathers
| Keywords:
churchgoing, equivalent
«I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Opera
| Keywords:
anachronism, equivalent, opera, ponderous, smoking