Quotes About Equivalence

you can prove that there are exactly as many real numbers between 0 and 1 as between 0 and any other finite number you can think of.

Nobody is different from anyone else, no matter what the situation. We're all equal.

Igual llama a igual, verdad a verdad, y engaño a engaño.

In countries where there are no horses, donkeys are called horses.

En los países en donde no hay caballos, a los burros se les llama caballos.

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

To compare great things with small.

I make no distinction between Trojan and Tyrian.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

Communication is only possible between equals.

Dead people are all on the same level.

Views online is a real weird and sticky subject. One view on a 30-second piece of content is not equivalent to one view on a 30 minute video. In my mind it's not quite the same thing.

In pointing out this parallel, I do not suggest that Hesiod is somehow the Greek equivalent of Moses or that his Theogony is to be granted the same status as Genesis.

Human actions consist always in a choice between two goods or two evils which are not deemed equivalent. Where there is perfect equivalence, man stays neutral; and no action results. But what is good and what is better, or what is bad and what is worse, is decided according to subjective standards, different with different individuals, and changing with the same individuals according to circumstances.

Might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat

Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.

metaphor (n) a figure of speech that says that one thing is another different thing as a way to compare the two and note their similarities; for example: "my mother is a battleship" or "school was a rollercoaster

Silence, like madness, is only comparative.

If you are in need of any spiritual thing -- joy, assurance, peace, or whatelse soever -- you can only come into full possession of it by giving an equivalent; you must pay the price for it.

If I give all I have and you give all you have, isn't that a kind of equality? No, he says.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.

At most, a certain resemblance might have been observed.