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“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”

Source: Politics

“What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?”

Found Justice Equal Modesty

Author:Horace

“I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.”

Suffering Found Offers Thousand Equal Strive Superiors Inferiors Quarrels Doubtful

Author:Joseph Hall

“Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.”

Men Mind Wells May Made Sometimes Body Together Found Differences Equal Benefits Claims Stronger Faculty One Man Mind And Body Leviathan

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves”

“The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.”

People World Found Equal Population Billions Income Cents Poorest Net Worth World Population

Book:Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

Source: Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

“Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.”

Mean Book Found Sweet Equal Portions Reach Out Sixty Glimpse Disturbing Something Better Hereafter Wry

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.”

Important Book Found Wish Interest Perfect Subjects Figures Lovers Equal Theater Shining Fascinating Colleagues Vivid Private Life Biographers Lovers And Friends

Author:Marian Seldes

“In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.”

Found Nations Existence Progress Stage Equal Resources Usual

Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

“Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.”

“This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the euro was introduced, the regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital. And the European Central Bank discounted all government bonds on equal terms. So commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate the bonds of the weaker countries to earn a few extra basis points.”

“I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Sound Audience Expression Equal Crowds Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where the government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where the administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal”

People Country Government Law Found Individual Felt Moral Opinion Influence Taxes Equal Affair Peaceful Interfere Simplest Scope Administrative Free Opinion

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“I came to Paul at quite an early age, having already studied Plato and Aristotle; and I found Paul easily their intellectual equal, though he was handling these amazing questions about God, Jesus, Israel, faith and so on. He continues to be an amazingly stimulating thinker, especially when we try to understand the flow of thought in letter after letter rather than just combing him for a few verses on 'our favourite topics', which, sadly, some Christian teachers do just as some journalists and broadcasters do!”

Trying Age Christian Found Jesus Teacher Equal Intellectual Flow Letters Israel Journalist Thinker Favourite Verses Topics Plato Broadcasters Plato And Aristotle Christian Teachers

Author:N. T. Wright

“A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.”

Ifs May Doe Two Moments Seems Found Given Movement Equal Opposites Appearance Circles Spheres

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.”

Knows Men Mind May Found House Poor Rich Kings Equal Mark Notes Kingdoms Luxury Wealthy Republic Rivals Poor Man

Author:George Holyoake

“I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.”

Art Care Certain Found Can Do Equal Standards Take Care Enjoyed You Can Do It Procedures

Author:William Monahan

“I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.”

Writing Mind Found Study Four Wall Equal Pages Sitting Clean Awake Enjoyment Theme Desks Four Walls

Book:Irving's Works

Source: Irving's Works

“Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.”

Love Reason Hands Age Fall Next Found Felt Four Happened Mines Equal Species Falling In Love Average Seventies

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.”

Courses Found Animal Equal Members Concern Standing Decided Fishes Invisible Berlin Aquariums

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

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