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Quotes About Similarity

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. If it's a duck, it's likely to swim, fly, have a back off which water rolls, and contain meat that's tasty when wrapped in a pancake with scallions and hoisin sauce.
~ Steven Pinker
Identical twins think and feel in such similar ways that they sometimes suspect they are linked by telepathy.
~ Steven Pinker
empathy is not a reflex that makes us sympathetic to everyone we lay eyes upon. It can be switched on and off, or thrown into reverse, by our construal of the relationship we have with a person. Its head is turned by cuteness, good looks, kinship, friendship, similarity, and communal solidarity.
~ Steven Pinker
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.
~ Ian Mcewan
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison
~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn't have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.
~ Ernest Cline
It looks just like Rivendell," Aech said, taking the words right out of my mouth.
~ Ernest Cline
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
~ Ernest Hemingway
So on the one hand you can have identical genes leading to very different phenotypes, and on the other you can have dissimilar genes producing exactly the same
~ Eva Jablonka
Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
~ Evan Esar
All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
I don't know how one can differentiate between comedies. A burger is a burger and though it may taste differently in different food joints, the fact remains that it is still a burger. It's the same with comedies.
~ Javed Jaffrey
People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
~ Jane Wiedlin
I like characters who remind me of someone I know.
~ Mia Wasikowska
I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.
~ Lydia Davis
I really love Glasgow. It reminds me of Boston in parts.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
I think Daniel Bryan reminds me a lot of my brother, Owen.
~ Bret Hart
I can't tell you how nice and genuine the people of San Antonio are... it reminds me a lot of Australia.
~ Patty Mills
It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
~ Anthony Collins
This is an exact replica of my chest.
~ Willie Aames
My husband says I look like a Q-tip.
~ Dolly Parton
A husband is very much like a house or a horse.
~ Anthony Trollope