Quotes About Equivalence

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

The average adult slave cost about 1,200 dollars in 1860, the equivalent to about 24,000 dollars today, so the 5,500 enslaved people of Augusta were worth over 6 million dollars to their owners, equal to 120 million dollars today.

MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.

Life essentially follows a barter system because a person has to give-out something to get-in something else of the same value only.

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.

We live in an era in which tomatoes and fudgesicles taste pretty much the same.

let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good.

An analogy says that A is to B as C is to D. A metaphor says that A is B, or substitutes B for A. A simile says that A is like B.

If a metaphor says A is B and a simile says A is like B, then an analogy says A is to B as C is to D.

Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.

When a response is detected, the thing that uttered moves separately but implacably toward its responder, as by gravity. So equivalence is drawn to equivalence until they are within touching distance.

Pirates owner and real estate baron John Galbreath owned a horse named Roberto as well as a ballplayer of the same name, and the two meant about the same thing to him.)

Tit for tat.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

The Animist is, in other words, all those who see an equivalence between all forms of life or who can see life where others would see the lack of life. The theoretical

After all, there are "good" behaviors and "bad" behaviors—are they really equivalent?

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Note that a rotation by 360 degrees is equivalent to doing nothing at all, or rotating by zero degrees. This is known as the identity transformation. Why bother to define such a transformation at all? As we shall see later in the book, the identity transformation plays a similar role to that of the number zero in the arithmetic operation of addition or the number one in multiplication-when you add zero to a number or multiply a number by one, the number remains unchanged.

Una cosa è credere che tutte le culture meritino considerazione, visto che tutte forniscono apporti positivi alla civiltà umana, e un'altra, molto diversa, è credere che tutte, per il semplice fatto di esistere, si equivalgano.