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I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

~Anita Roddick

Topics: Am Because Business Businesses Creed Equivalent Forgotten Honest Long Looking Made Modern Money Offered People Products Quakers Ran Sadly Seems Still Successful Those Treated Who I Am

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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

~Ann Brashares

Topics: Baby Both Cases Characters Create Encompass Equivalent Feels Least Like Lose Mental Something Them You Yourself

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The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Composer Equivalent Negative Performance Print Score

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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

~Antoine Lavoisier

Topics: Agriculture Arts Developing Equivalent Farmers Improving Lower Moral Obtaining Physical Price Production Qualities Succeeds Trades Workers

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Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

~Apollonius Of Tyana

Topics: Also City Contains Equivalent Law Paintings Stones Subject Such Things Theaters Them Things Unless Useless Wisdom

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Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.

~Archer John Porter Martin

Topics: About Array Assistants Build Decided Done Equivalent However Machine Separating Since Whether Work

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Else Equivalent Head Instead Own Reading Someone Thinking

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When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Topics: Arab Brian Directed Equivalent Forward Gogh Huge Lead Lead Role Life Muhammad Out Role Step Step Forward Van Van Gogh Will

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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

~Ayn Rand

Topics: Achieving Avoiding Death Equivalent Life

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White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

~Barbara Block

Topics: Africa Before Equivalent Hot Journeys Just Marine Migration Miles Place Plain Return Returning Salmon Same Sharks Spot Stream Take Thousands Travel Tuna White

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