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“Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.”

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Author:Diane Kruger

“What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.”

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Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.”

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Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”

“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”

“Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

“I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.”

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Author:Karl Liebknecht

“I don't need equal time, I am equal time!”

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”

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Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Source: Two treatises of government

“Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.”

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.”

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Author:Maimonides

“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

“Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”

“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.”

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Author:James M. Barrie

“I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.”

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Author:Marissa Mayer

“Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.”

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Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal.”

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Author:Martina McBride

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.”

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Author:Josh McDowell

“If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.”

Ifs Love Light Hurt Darkness Amount Equal Friendship Love

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.”

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Author:Jon Meacham

“Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.”

People Politician Equal Committed

Author:Angela Merkel

“We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.”

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Author:Barbara Mikulski

“One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”

“No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.”

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Author:Moliere

“Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.”

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Author:Mandy Moore

“The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.”

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Author:Alanis Morissette

“This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.”

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Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

“Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.”

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Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.”

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Author:Kathy Najimy

“The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”

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Book:Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace

Source: Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace

“Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities ... the list goes on!”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”

Source: Animal Farm and 1984