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1 " The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her part, she had invested everything in love (she had even been willing to sacrifice her parents and their peaceful existence); in turn, she had expected her partner to invest an equal amount of capital of feelings in the common account. To redress the imbalance, she gradually withdrew her emotional deposit and after the wedding presented a proud, severe face to her husband. "
― Milan Kundera , Life is Elsewhere
2 " Talented writers etched the story detailing the travails of broken souls numerous times. The poets recounted an equal amount of times the lucent tears of human laughter and weeping sorrow. Everyone understands bitterness and joy. Conversely, the most evocative aspects of human beings, the bewildering clarification of their ambiguous natures, are virtually indefinable and therefore unutterable. Written testaments to love, truth, beauty, and adoration of nature are inherently weak because words fail to convey what a person experiences inside the spaces that compose their chemical field. "
― , Dead Toad Scrolls
3 " After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag). "
― Dada Bhagwan
4 " Each of us has an equal amount of Shadow and Light buried in our souls. What makes us different is how much Shadow we choose to suppress, and how much Light we choose to show. "
5 " when you're feeling emotional, remember:there is no sad, sad comes from feeling too happy. there is no happy, happiness comes from feeling extreme sadness. when they say that you have an equal amount of suffering and joy in the world, that is a lie. your extreme suffering makes any slight thing seem amazing, and your happiness makes you suffer at any slightly worse thing. "
6 " Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and the larger society as well. He is an exemplary Native activist, indeed. "
― , The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty
7 " The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. "
8 " I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great. "
