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Quotes About Uniqueness

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
~ Eugene Ionesco
A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
~ George Eliot
I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If man is not special, if he's not deeply different from any other thing, then there's no good reason not to treat him just like any other thing when it's convenient for us to do so.
~ Greg Koukl
I am the odd man out in the family.
~ Loni Anderson
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
~ Malcolm de Chazal
Some men are more perfect than others.
~ Merle Shain
No two men are alike, and both of them are happy for it.
~ Morris Mandel
God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.
~ Myles Munroe
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
~ Ned Rorem
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
~ Norman Cousins
There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.
~ Ovid
The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a new method.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
~ Rene Dubos
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
~ Rex Stout
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
~ Richard Cecil
Men are not potatoes!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
~ Robert Henri