Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal."
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Equal
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Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"
Socrates
Philosopher
"When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior."
John Donne
Poet, Cleric
"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes."
James D. Watson
Molecular Biologist, Geneticist
"We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science."
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"'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'"
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"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
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"There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals."
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"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."
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"Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more."
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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."
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"All lives have an equal value."
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"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
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"If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity."
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"There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night."
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"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."
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"He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
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"Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else."
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"And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other."
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"Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter."
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"If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well"
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"Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid."
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"There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories."
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"I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls."
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"Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear."
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