Quotes About Equivalence

It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are issued and circulate as equivalent to the cash supposedly represented by those receipts.

Deja eso, chico, cuando no has apostado todos los caballos parecen el mismo.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

He was the first to understand that unambiguous equivalence principles could be obtained only with the most inspired attention to experimental accuracy.

Two statements are logically equivalent if it is impossible for one to be true and the other false. They are either both true or both false. One of the most important logical equivalences is called contraposition. It tells us that any statement of the form "If P, then Q" is logically equivalent to "If not-Q, then not-P." The example in the text of statements A and B is an example of contraposition.

Money was no more ever "invented" than music or mathematics or jewelry. What we call "money" isn't a "thing" at all; it's a way of comparing things mathematically, as proportions: of saying one of X is equivalent to six of Y. As such it is probably as old as human thought.

What we call "money" isn't a "thing" at all; it's a way of comparing things mathematically, as proportions: of saying one of X is equivalent to six of Y.

It is only the expression of equivalence between different sorts of commodities which brings to view the specific character of value-creating labour, by actually reducing the different kinds of labour embedded in the different kinds of commodity to their common quality of being human labour in general. (142)

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

A jade eates as much as a good horse.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

The reason blacks and whites do not enjoy similar outcomes despite similar treatment by society is that the black and white populations are not equivalent. Although I expressed myself as gently and sympathetically as possible, my conclusion was that black outcomes reflect black behavior rather than oppression by whites. A

Translation in terms of power struggle: not a simple process for achieving equivalence but a conflict a question of 'bind or be bound', 'chain or be chained', 'capture or be taken captive