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"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."	James T. Farell
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true."	James T. Farrell
"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."	John Martin Fischer
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."	Anatole France
"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."	Benjamin Franklin
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."	Edward Gibbon
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."	Kahlil Gibran
"For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it."	Malcom Gladwell
"All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism."	B. J. Gupta
"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."	Robert Hall
"Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world."	Jane Harrison
"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude."	Friedrich August von Hayek
"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence? Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defence be the_real_object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"	Patrick Henry
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."	William James
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar"	Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."	Thomas Jefferson
"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts."	John Junor
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal."	Helen Adams Keller
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