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“Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.”

Humans Doe Important Matter Belief Memories Common Groups Blood Type Objectives Customs Subjective Formation Similarity Descent Migration Colonization

Author:Max Weber

“We are more alike than unalike.”

Deep Thought Similarity Wise Women

Author:Maya Angelou

“When I get asked, 'what are the differences between Twilight and THG' I'm like, 'Erm, what are the similarities?'”

Differences Twilight Similarity

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.”

People Differences Beauty Definitions Equality Similarity Susceptible Equality Of People Equality For All

Author:Linda Ellerbee

“We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.”

Men Trying Felt Consciousness Wonderful Men And Women Embrace Connected Acknowledge Collectives Vehicle Similarity Collective Consciousness Polarity

Author:Lily Tomlin

“When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.”

Looks Differences Barriers Similarity

Author:Garrison Wynn

“Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else”

Travel Surprise Bizarre Similarity Pacific

Author:Miriam

“I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.”

Action Energy Sports Food Cooking Coaches Compare Kitchen Culinary Chef Similarity Camaraderie

Author:Todd English

“The greater number of landscapes I explored, the more it seemed that they had traits in common and that the essence of each was not its uniqueness but its similarity to others.”

Common Numbers Greater Essence Landscape Soil Traits Uniqueness Similarity

Author:J. B. Jackson

“Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its prescribed place in an album; but taxonomy is a fundamental and dynamic science, dedicated to exploring the causes of relationships and similarities among organisms. Classifications are theories about the basis of natural order, not dull catalogues compiled only to avoid chaos.”

Source: Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

“In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.”

Light Form Certain Culture Difficult Subjects Design Easier Civilization Mathematics Patterns Extremes Physics All Time Permanent Propositions Similarity Epoch Astrophysics

Author:Philippe Starck

“...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.”

Source: The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality

“In the larger scheme of things, God has commonly effected this purifying by revival or judgement. Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment... Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival - or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other.”

People Way May Mean Seems Spiritual Strange Judgment Prepared Trends Permit Decline Revival Similarity

Author:Arthur Wallis

“In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.”

Children Past Faces Responsibility Situation Demand Prepared Reactions Spite Be Prepared Similarity Newborn New Faces Newborn Child

Book:Between Man and Man

Source: Between Man and Man

“The more we study the early Church, the more we realize that it was a society of ministers. About the only similarity between the Church at Corinth and a contemporary congregation, either Roman Catholic or Protestant, is that both are marked, to a great degree, by the presence of sinners.”

Realizing Church Study Society Degrees Catholic Contemporary Ministers Sinner Similarity Protestants Congregation Roman Catholic

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.”

Way Needs Choices Differences Fit Currents Similarity

Author:James Fallows

“Suppose that there is something which a person cannot understand. He happens to notice the similarity of this something to some other thing which he understands quite well. By comparing them he may come to understand the thing which he could not understand up to that moment.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Persons Moments Happens Science Turns Understanding Creative Claims Compare Appropriate That Moment Similarity

Author:Hideki Yukawa

“All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.”

Different Science Differences All Things Similarity

Book:Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Source: Black Rednecks and White Liberals

“The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.”

“You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake.”

Moving Strong Sound Like You Sake Popularity Similarity Like Yourself

Author:Chuck D

“It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.”

World Fun Research Picks Around The World Flavor Similarity Cuisine

Author:Cat Cora

“In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.”

Book Moments Wanted Past Purpose Perspective Paper Present Moment Definite Plato Papers Similarity

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.”

Way Want Sound Taught Dad Guitar My Dad Massive Vocal Similarity Cords Hendrix Vocal Cords

Author:Dhani Harrison

“Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.”

“In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.”

Knows Way Children Stills Age Certain Parent Nature Differences Issues Behavior Standards Expectations Size Despite Similarity Bossy Age Difference

Author:Delia Ephron

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