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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Actions Brain Cerebral Day Distinct Equations Equivalent Getting Gravitation Hopes Law Laws Mathematical Molecules Mutual One Day Phenomena Planetary Put Short Them Too Very World I Can

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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: American American Culture Been Began Century Culture Day Deep Department Early Equivalent Gluttony Holiday Parades Roots Since Spending Sponsor Stores Thanksgiving Turkey 20Th Century

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I believe that Bitcoin is going to change the way that everything works. I want entrepreneurs to tell me how its going to change. Build the equivalent of an Iron Man suit with Bitcoin.

~Adam Draper

Topics: Believe Bitcoin Build Change Entrepreneurs Equivalent Everything Going How Iron Iron Man Man Me Suit Tell Want Way Works I Believe I Believe That

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When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

~Adolph Gottlieb

Topics: Afterwards Any Could Effects Enter Equivalent Experience Inconceivable Me Painting Purely Relations Something Terms Them Things Thinking Verbal Visual Work

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Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. The line makes most people walking by want to find out what's worth the wait. The digital equivalent of the velvet rope helped build viral growth for initially invite-only launches like Gmail, Gilt Groupe, Spotify, and Turntable.fm.

~Aileen Lee

Topics: Behind Build Club Consider Digital Equivalent Find Get Growth Helped Initially Like Line Makes Most Out People Proof Rope Social Spotify Standing Velvet Viral Wait Waiting Walking Want Worth

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No one seriously believes that unlocking a cellphone to switch carriers is equivalent to piracy.

~Ajit Pai

Topics: Believes Equivalent Piracy Seriously Switch Unlocking

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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Believed Century Depths Equivalent First Infinite Late Lines Many Ocean Outer Outer Space People Probe Right Seas Space Until Up Used Were 18Th Century

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Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

~Alan Moore

Topics: Amount Culture Equivalent Every Every Single Thing Given Goes Going Had Having Here How Information Monitoring None Process Single Single Thing Then Thing You

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I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.

~Alaya Dawn Johnson

Topics: Books Bought Come Did Equivalent Everyone Literary Many Novel People Think Underground Velvet Who Wrote

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One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.

~Albert Pike

Topics: Creation Equivalent Man Miniature World

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