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Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war. -- Raul Castro
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. -- Herbert Croly
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. -- Jacqueline Cochran
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God. -- Gabriele Nanni
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats. -- Marge Piercy
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. -- Mike Lee
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. -- Sidney Poitier
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' -- Adam Ant
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. -- Will Self
Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success. -- Ludwig von Mises
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. -- Benjamin Cardozo
To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them. -- Jean-Francois Regnard
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity. -- Anum Sattar
Putting forth the effort to succeed is (tan.ta.mount), tantamount to your success. -- Jon Jones
Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin. -- Morgan Freeman
To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen. -- Richard Louv
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter. -- Paul Driessen
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."(Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13, 3 May 1919) -- Mahatma Gandhi
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind. -- Queen Noor of Jordan
Ibn Mas'ud said that Allah's Messenger said: Abusing a Muslim is sinful and fighting with his tantamount to Kufr. Bukhari Muslim -- Ahmad Von Denffer
The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious. -- Richelle Mead
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding. -- Rudolf Arnheim
I think [John] Adams was correct when he said that his May resolutions were "an Epocha, a decisive Event," and tantamount to a declaration of independence. -- Gordon S. Wood
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. -- Yann Martel
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
Letting cats and dogs have litters is tantamount to shooting shelter animals in the head since it kills their chances of adoption. Please do the right thing and spay or neuter your animals. -- Steven Morrissey
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge -- Ravi Zacharias
To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge -- Ravi Zacharias
The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy -- George F. Will
The theory is that election to Congress is tantamount to being dispatched to Washington on a looting raid for the enrichment of your state or district, and no other ethic need inhibit the feeding frenzy. -- George Will
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism. -- Leon Trotsky

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