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Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.


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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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LAURENCE J. PETER However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the pe...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality.
EMER O'TOOLE People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of une...
LEO XIII Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
VISCOUNT SAMUEL Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transfor...
KEDAR JOSHI Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
JOHN RALSTON SAUL What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
EBENEZER ELLIOT What is a communist? One who hath yearnings / For equal division of unequal earnings.
EBENEZER ELLIOTT But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disp...
MATTHEW DESMOND All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of soci...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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FELIX FRANKFURTER Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of e...
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GARY F EVANS... Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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BRIAN ENO Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANT Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
PETER DE VRIES Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
JOSé SARAMAGO What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler...
EBENEZER ELLIOTT Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
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ERWIN FRAND The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy o...
ERWIN FRAND The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy o...
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KARTHI PILLAY Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
BARRY JENKINS It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important
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PATRICK KASER PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the...
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JOHANN VON GOETHE We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The amount of things you ignore is equal to the amount of things you are afraid of.
FATHOM The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLER To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
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BIJOU HUNTER I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
JOHN SEARLE Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. Tha...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.
BETTE MIDLER Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.
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J.A. REDMERSKI There should be a site visit to make things equal, but life isn't always fair.
LARRY MASON We have to try to make things better.
JEFF PHILLIPS The worst thing we could do, the worst thing, is to take things
HARRY THOMAS Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?
ONYI ANYADO Don't try to focus in something within itself is a failURE.
DEYTH BANGER All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch ...
UNKNOWN It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
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LAURENCE STERNE 'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; a...
LAURENCE STERNE I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to t...
LAURENCE STERNE I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and wen...
LAURENCE FISHBURNE First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but h...
LAURENCE STERNE When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but th...
LAURENCE STERNE Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong,...
LAURENCE STERNE There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
LAURENCE STERNE People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they nev...
LAURENCE STERNE Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature...
LAURENCE STERNE Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
LAURENCE STERNE So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither c...
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