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“I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.”

Should Ends Self Earth Chance Failing Achieve Regret Confidence Equal Intellectual Should Have Permit Assurance Equilibrium Self Assurance

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.”

Should Taxes Equal Clothes Should Have Proportion Productive Proven Gasoline Equitable Painless Sales Tax Cheap Food

Author:Will Rogers

“I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Facts Law Lucky Equal Smart Should Have Constitution Equality Cute

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?”

“The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth century. Its drag as to time of official proclamation is a drag as to social vision. And even if equal rights were now written into the law of our land, it would be so inadequate today as a means to food, clothing and shelter for woman at large that what they would still be enjoying would be equality in disaster rather than in realistic privilege.”

“All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.”

Should Mind Kind Memories Teaching Industry Genius Equal Should Have Patient Invention Originality Competent Correctness Erudition

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Women should have equal pay for equal work and they should be considered equally eligible to the offices of principal and superintendent, professor and president. So you must insist that qualifications, not sex, shall govern appointments and salaries.”

Should Sex President Pay Equal Office Should Have Professors Principal Salary Appointments Qualifications Equal Pay Superintendents

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.”

World Should Seems Government Religion Principles Planets Equal Should Have Invisible Visible Pariahs

Book:History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

Source: History of Woman Suffrage ...: 1883-1900

“Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.”

“So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.”

Men Should Happiness Law Opportunity Wealth Education Equal Should Have Institutions Secure Diffusion Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.”

Should Looks Ideas Ends Matter America Opportunity Nations Promise Succeed Equal Essentials Should Have Who You Are Determine Outcomes Equal Opportunity Where You Come

Author:Barack Obama

“I believe that women should have equal rights to education, to work and to civic and political engagement.”

Should Believe Political I Believe Rights Equal Should Have Engagement Equal Rights Civics Political Engagement

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi

“We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.”

Should Believe Matter America Equal Shots Should Have Who You Are Democrat Where You Come

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.”

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”

“The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.”

Should Humans Shows Opportunity Human Beings Democracy Personality Equal Should Have Essence Meant To Be Assurance

Author:Anna Garlin Spencer

“We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.”

Should Ideas School Chance Quality Equal Elements Should Have Notion Equality Pursuit Opening Traditional Endowment

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.”

Should Children Motivation Ability Talent Equal Should Have Equal Rights

Author:John F. Kennedy