The essence is the same
No!

A quote is a quote.
Change a word and it slowly morphs into something else. The original words have different impacts on differing peoples. To you the meaning is equivalent, but for the guy sitting next to you the formula has parameters that you don't recognise, and to him (her) the equation is unbalanced.

The essence is near/close. But ................

The English culture is one of incessant football, football and more football. Look at TV schedules, advertising revenue jumps fourfold cf anything else (I have inside info). But my nationality has only a historic footnote about the tribal warfare (don't even get me started) that is soccer. And for that the ball wasn't remotely spherical, (or ovoid). But (I concede) warfare it was!