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Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

Now it's $200 billion. If we don't change the course, the rest of the world could own $15 trillion of us. That's pretty substantial. That's equal to the value of all American stock.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

It's a party of hope for America. Lincoln gave Americans hope through equal opportunities for all.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sadly, after seeing glowing praise, some jerk to equally opposite reaction, hatred ... astonishingly before even reading the book.

It shouldn't be the case that it's not equal ... It's a good field for everybody. Absolutely, a ton needs to be done.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse.

So far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distance travelled in equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd number beginning with 1'.

A patriot's blood,Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed,And for a time ensure to his loved land,The sweets of liberty and equal laws;But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize,And win it with more pain. Their blood is shedIn confirmation of the noblest claim --Our claim to feed upon immortal truth,To walk with God, to be divinely free,To soar, and to anticipate the skies.Yet few remember them.

A patriot's blood, Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed, And for a time ensure to his loved land, The sweets of liberty and equal laws; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim -- Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

I am almost equal to a shadow.

Women are equal because they are not different any more.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.

I do not believe that John Roberts has met the burden of proof necessary to be confirmed by the Senate as chief justice of the United States, ... Sadly, there is ample evidence that he would turn the clock back on this country's great march of progress toward equal opportunity for all.

Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Once a woman is made man's equal, she becomes his superior.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Humility reminds you that in order to receive value, you must create value in equal measure.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

When we are asleep, we are all equal.

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues

The great law of culture - and surely this convention before us now is a great law of culture - is: let each person become all that he was created equal of being. That is what this convention will help to achieve.

the ideologues of his council to arrange what he calls their revolutionary rubbish, such as sovereign people, equal rights, etc.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

All men are created equal.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.