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Quotes About Similarity

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
~ Mark Twain
Love hate-are they really that different?
~ April Henry
The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar.
~ Aristotle
It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.
~ Aristotle
Existe entre los hechos delictivos un gran parecido de familia, y si usted se sabe por completo y en detalle un millar de casos, pocas veces deja de poner en claro el mil uno.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The delusions of paranoiacs have an unpalatable external similarity and internal kinship to the systems of our philosophers.
~ Sigmund Freud
It is the relation of similarity, congruence, or convergence, the just like, which dreams have the most various means of expressing better than anything else.
~ Sigmund Freud
What does it matter if one person has black hair and another brown, one has a straight back and another stoops? Our bodies brea the life in the same fashion; blood runs through our veins, and we require food and drink. Our souls need the same things, suffer the same hunger and thirst.
~ Sigrid Undset
Toate familiile fericite se aseam?n? între ele. Fiecare familie nefericit? este nefericit? în felul ei.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
We're all the same in different ways
~ Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends.
~ Shannon L. Alder
As a kind of learning, it resembles the methods humans use to figure out that certain objects or events are from the same class, such as by observing the degree of similarity between objects.
~ John Paul Mueller
La diferencia puede atraer, pero lo que retiene es la semejanza; y los individuos pueden darse recíprocamente felicidad según sean más o menos semejantes entre sí.
~ John Stuart Mill
It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
the more similar a person seems to you in attitudes, opinions, and interests, the more you like the person. Opposites may attract, but they don't stick.
~ Elliot Aronson
There's a girl here and She's almost you...
~ Elvis Costello
In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
~ Emanuel Celler
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
~ Emil Ludwig
My voice has been likened to the mating call of the caribou.
~ bankhead tallulah ii
All women become like their mothers.
~ Barbara Cleverly
in the afternoon sunshine. "You could both pass for at least
~ Barbara Freethy
They really liked each other, too. Not like boyfriend and girlfriend, I don't mean. But they both had naturally curly hair, and they both thought professional wrestling was real--which are two pretty strong bonds, when you think about it.
~ Barbara Park
when she thought it over, Jane decided that she was really much more like Emma Woodhouse.
~ Barbara Pym
We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
~ Barry Schuler