Equalizer Quotes

• In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Differences, May

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  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Balance

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.

  Denzel Washington

  Be Who You Are, World, Matter

  "The Equalizer Exclusive: Antoine Fuqua on “The King of Actors”". Interview with Joel D Amos, www.moviefanatic.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

  Kofi Annan

  Giving, Chance, Hopeless

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• I believe education is the great equalizer.

  Dave Heineman

  Believe, I Believe

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• Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

  Morrie Schwartz

  Tuesdays With Morrie, Tears, Stranger

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• Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adversity, Common, Conflict

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• Illness is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who you are, rich or poor, young or old, fat or thin, sick is sick.

  Fran Drescher

  Rich Or Poor, Sick, Matter

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

  Robert McCall

  Men, Be Who You Are, World

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• What do you see when you look at me?

  Robert McCall

  Looks, Look At Me

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• The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

  Zig Ziglar

  Men, Games, Guy

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

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• Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.

  Kenneth Turan

  Death, Player, Action

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• Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.

  June Millington

  Water, Great Things, Happens

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I would be lying to you if I said I wouldn't love for it [Equalizer] to become a franchise, I would love for it to become a hit and all that great stuff. Who knows-you just make the best movie you can make, you know it's like, eat the whole thing, one piece at a time. And then, we'll see what happens, I would love for it to be.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Lying, Would Be, Pieces

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .

  J. Richard Clarke

  Work, Average, Worry

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• I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!

  Erin Gruwell

  Educational, Believe, Fighting

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• Death is the great equalizer. I've seen that phenomenon many times. I've had people in my classes come to me, men and women over 50 years old, and they say, "I made it, I'm rich. But what the hell is my life for?"

  Jacob Needleman

  Men, Years, Class

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• On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

  Bobby Seale

  Gun, Hands, People

  "Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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• The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an "equalizer."

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Police, Democracy

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Tanks, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer.

  Gina Bianchini

  Internet, Supposed To Be

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• Karaoke is the great equalizer.

  Aisha Tyler

  Inspirational, Karaoke

  Aisha Tyler (2005). “Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl”, Plume Books

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• Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Book, Reading, Opening Up

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2018

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