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“The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.”

Two Ends Games Situation Equal Average Valuable Queens Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.”

Inspirational Persons Two Winning Sports Ability Practice Player Hard Work Victory Politician Equal Losing Competition Assuming Competitors Hard Work Pays Off Practice Makes Perfect

Author:Bill Bradley

“The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.”

World Love Heart Littles Two Equal Equal Love

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Thinking Men Firsts Heart Mean Two Turns Speak Force Voice Subjects Danger He Man Solitude Equal Approach Painful Pleasant Reasonable Yield Avoiding

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.”

Two Lying Circumstances Equal Envy Being Equal

Author:Jeremy Collier

“I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.”

Ifs Needs Two Running Fields Equal Waste Athlete Benches Receiver Sidelines Running Back Defensive Backs

Author:Alan Chadwick

“A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.”

Two Hours Sleep Liberty Path Mountain Creatures Equal Add Saint Climbing Rogues Fraternity Mountain Climbing Tiredness

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

Mean Two Whole Half Doubt Impossible Equal Mathematics Math Proof Lawyer Mathematical Programming Mathematician Mathematical Proof

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them.”

Mean Persons Two Soul Hell Mom Bears Directors Equal Esteem Stations Delicious Terrific Relish Teddy Movie Business Great Souls Good Directors Teddy Bear

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Doe Has Beens Said Stills Two Stories Light Mother Night Hate Father Names Voice This World Changed Son Honor Equal Daughter Devil Celebrate Mourning What If Funk

Author:Bootsy Collins

“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.”

Men Has Beens Two Hands Lines Feet Middle Equal Distance Fingers Height Sole Crowns Straight Lines Two Hands Middle Finger

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

“Two widely dissimilar races, whether equal or not, cannot peaceably coexist in the same territory until they are either uniformly mongrelised or cast in folkways of permanent and traditional personal aloofness.”

Two Race Equal Casts Traditional Permanent Territory Coexist Aloofness Folkways

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; --When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.”

Men Looks Two Hours Pay Week He Man Equal Men And Women Discovery Astonishing

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.”

Ifs Men World Humans Two Purpose Motivation Choices Given Sex Ability Roles Equal Bases Sexuality Two Things Layers Linked Procreation

Author:Gloria Feldt

“I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.”

Feels Persons Two Brother Equal Degrees Educated Prize Multiple Nobel Nobel Prize Educated Person Immediate Family

Author:Steven Chu

“And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.”

Want Two Reason Running Lying Politics Term Decision Liberty Economy Democracy Equal Mark Majority Defined Liberalism Reverse Sovereign Sovereignty Beneficial

Author:Aristotle

“The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.”

People Two Heard Equal Importance Golf Scotch

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.”

Two Government Three Subjects Equal Court Notion Sake Come Up Following Supreme Branches Supreme Court Ruling Supreme Being Branches Of Government

Author:Mike Huckabee

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.”

“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.”

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that.”

Thinking Way Firsts Two Equal Extremes Skepticism Gullibility

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.”

Source: Oil!

“On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.”

“She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.”

Two Together Religion Women Saws Pieces Middle Equal Paper Areas Perfection Circles Mathematical Pairs Formulas Leafs Neat Arriving Crescent

Author:Jan Struther

“... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?”

Two Seems Turns Language Sides Hours Brain Principles Equal Mathematics Remains Sticks Corners Clock Squares Geometry Two Sides Algebra Theorems Triangles Trigonometry

Author:Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

“There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.”

Firsts Has Beens Two Lasts Opinion Creativity Technology Evolution Amount Equal Happenings Meetings Decades Two Things Remarkable Unbelievable Intersections Pioneering

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity or infidelity here. No prophecies, no miracles are necessary to prove this celestical communication. This revelation has made it certain that two and one make three, and that one is not three nor can three be one. We can never be so certain of any prophecy, or the fulfilment of any prophecy, or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle, as we are from the revelation of nature, that is, nature's God, that two and two are equal to four.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.”

Looks Two Hard States Reality Might Together Fighting Gone Amount Battle Equal Damage Working Together Mississippi Louisiana

Author:Tim Ryan

“Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.”

People Heart Mean Doe Two Body Mets Equal Lips Equal Love

Author:Joshua Harris

“There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.”

Knows Wells I Can Two Pleasure Know How Equal Findings Two Things Helpful Make Me Happy

Author:Alan Alda

“It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.”

Two Country Helping Used Sides Class Wonderful Students Emotional Equal Exciting Very Good Developing Fifteen Nurture Good Writers Exciting Things Good Students

Author:Alan Lightman

“The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.”

Two Faces Taken Fire Four Return Equal Riders Drought Prairie Tornadoes Horsemen Four Horsemen

Book:PrairyErth: A Deep Map

Source: PrairyErth: A Deep Map

“You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.”

People Men Two Example Equal Men And Women Definitions Two Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“A basic all-purpose rub: mix together one or two tablespoons equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, and onion powder. That will give you real good base for any kind of meat. Just increase the amount if you're grilling large quantities.”

Ifs Giving Kind Two Real Together Purpose Black Amount Equal Increase Meat Quantity Onions Powder Peppers Garlic Grilling Black Pepper

Author:Johnny Trigg

“There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.”

World Two Facts Seems Might Form Political Belief Interest Religious Poor Rich Equal Flow Injustice Disappointment Violent Realization Etc Unjust Religious Belief

Book:Impossible Objects

Source: Impossible Objects

“There are a variety of reasons. Not all Western leaders are equal. We have to make a certain separation from naïve Americans and Europeans. These are two different categories. For the Europeans, it affects the image of the "New Europe." The false image of Europe is that it is peaceful, separate from the past. Now the image of the New Europe is a radically false image.”

Two Different Reason Past Certain Leader Equal Europe Western Separation Peaceful Variety Categories

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“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

“The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.”

Way Two Earth Form Law Natural Effort Equal Difficulty Population Productions Inequality Insurmountable

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion.”

Believe Wells Two Soul Certain Enjoy Answers Opinion Reader Equal Harmony Tunes

Author:Izaak Walton

“Letting the religious right teach ID in schools is like letting the Marines teach poetry in advanced combat training. As a scientist, I see these the relevancy between the two sets to be equal. If Kansas is going to mess up like this, the least it can do is not be hypocritical and allow equal time for other alternative "theories" like FSMism, which is by far the tastier choice.”

Ifs Two School Choices Can Do Religious Teach Theory Equal Training Scientist Mess Alternatives Combat Marine Kansas Hypocritical

Author:Julian Simon

“People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.”

People Believe Two Hard Moments Steps Roles Talent Hard Work Equal Findings Luck Fortune Deny Latter Sheer Good Fortune Right Moment

Book:Chindi

Source: Chindi

“If you're hanging out with two negative people, do they equal one positive person?”

People Ifs Persons Two Equal Negative Hanging Out Negative People Positive Person

Author:Bob Saget

“Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing M*A*S*H; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.”

People Want Writing Two Home Kids Used Acting Wife Rights Mets Equal Equal Rights Schooling Affirming Life Affirming

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.”

Two Country Individual Nations United Numbers Groups Equal Size Population Executives Representatives Globes United Nations Assembly Representing Pillars Delegates

Author:Vaclav Havel

“We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be treated the same, when it comes to the moment of excretion, even the most modern society - especially the most modern society - segregates two restrooms with little icons outside the doors, one wearing a dress, one wearing pants.”

Men Should Littles Two Matter Moments Doors Modern Equal Men And Women Dresses Treated Pants Icons Modern Society Restroom Wearing A Dress

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.”

People Two Together Hours Half Equal Equality Superiority Evident

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I think what Lawrence did was provide an assurance that gay and lesbian couples could live openly in society as free people and start families and raise families and participate fully in their communities without fear. And two things flowed from that, I think. One is that has brought us to the point where we understand now in a way even that we did not fully understand in Lawrence, that gay and lesbian people and gay and lesbian couples are full and equal members of the community.”

People Thinking Way Two Community Couple Gay Equal Members Raises Two Things Assurance

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.”

People Two Poor Equal Outcomes Two Things Guarantees

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“While the President [Barack Obama] did a good thing when he said he personally supported equal marriage, he then quickly backed away and said that he wasn't going to do anything about it - that it was a state matter, and that he wasn't going to interfere, as opposed to being than being a real advocate for equality across the board in marriage. He also, I think two weeks prior to that statement, refused to sign an executive order to establish equal rights in the workplace for the LGBT community.”