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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.
Walt WhitmanRead
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord TennysonRead
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
BonoRead
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
Garrett HardinRead
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. WellsRead
The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
Kurt VonnegutRead
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
James SurowieckiRead
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
Gloria SteinemRead
The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal.
Lysander SpoonerRead
Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
Sonia SotomayorRead
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.
Peter SingerRead
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Women deserve equal pay for equal work.
Barack ObamaRead
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
A. A. MilneRead
I want my commitment to ending girl marriage to be equal to my commitment to ending apartheid.
Desmond TutuRead
The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John WoodenRead
We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.
Barack ObamaRead
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert EinsteinRead
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
Sheryl SandbergRead
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
Isaac NewtonRead
Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
Seth GodinRead

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