Counterparts Quotes

• Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

  Mark Hopkins

  Language

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.224, Applewood Books

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• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  Carl Lewis

  Games, People, Political

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• I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

  Warren Farrell

  Entrepreneur, Males, Found

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• The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Animal, Wind, Risk

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• But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee.

  Alan Lewis

  Team, Mean, Games

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• I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.

  Viola Davis

  School, Opportunity, Ideas

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Children, School, Healthy

  "Sugar Babies: The Rise of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes in Children" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Class, Upset, Kind

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• The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Nature, Counterfeit Money

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Differences, Seekers

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• In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.

  Allen Weinstein

  Rights, Government, Citizens

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• The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

  Tarja Halonen

  Opportunity, Creative, Males

  Speech at The Opening Of The Women Of Learning Exhibition In Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

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• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Reform, Income, Benefits

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• This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

  John T. Flynn

  Enemy, Planning, Mask

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• We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Latin, Pressure

  Bobby Bonilla during MLB World Series: Indians v Marlins Press Conference, www.asapsports.com. October 17, 1997.

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• President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Country, Equal Pay, One Day

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• There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Europe, Drug, World

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• If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

  Mark Foley

  Common Vision, Turkeys, Leader

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• Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Writing

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• When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

  Camille Pissarro

  Soul, Noble, Whole

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• I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Regret, Assessment, United States

  Presser on Wikileaks Release of Confidential Documents, delivered 29 November 2010, Treaty Room, Washington, D.C.

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• Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Alarms, Mars, Invasion

  "Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

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• Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Teenage, Psych

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• Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

  John Paul Stevens

  Majority, Speak, Individual

  John Paul Stevens, University of Chicago. Law School (1992). “The Bill of Rights: a century of progress”

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• The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.

  James P. Cannon

  Law, Land, Ignorant

  "Fascism and The Workers’ Movement". The Militant, www.marxists.org. March-April 1954.

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