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Quotes About Similarities

Nadia shook her head, marveling at the capacity people had for ignoring what they had in common, and fighting bitterly over whatever small differences existed between them. She
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences.
~ Yehuda Berg
It was a remarkable intersection of thoughts. She said almost in the same words the things I had written down before the walk! Do you understand? Even the thoughts! It is because nobody is one, but one of. We are all so much alike—
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
as a Semitic people, when in fact there is not. The word "Semitic" was coined in 1781 by a German historian to describe a group of languages that originated in the Middle East and that have some linguistic similarities; they include Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, ancient Akkadian, and Ugaritic. There's nothing that binds the speakers of these different languages together as a people.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
The word "Semitic" was coined in 1781 by a German historian to describe a group of languages that originated in the Middle East and that have some linguistic similarities; they include Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Amharic, ancient Akkadian, and Ugaritic. There's nothing that binds the speakers of these different languages together as a people.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
While boys create connections through friendly competition, girls create connections by downplaying competition and focusing on similarities.
~ Deborah Tannen
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
~ Jenna Bush
Sometimes, things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
About the only thing camels and horses have in common, sir, is that people ride them.
~ Amy Lane
It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.
~ Jason Isbell
Americans know that we have more in common than we do differences.
~ Joe Sestak
There are a lot of similarities, even though we're in two different businesses: There's the Taylor Swift business and the Big Machine Label Group business, but there's a huge intersection there. When we're together, it's limitless.
~ Scott Borchetta
I think I've become more like my mom just because of what we're both interested in, children and teaching and writing.
~ Jenna Bush
Daily Law: Examine the faults you see in others and how they are in you as well.
~ Robert Greene
when you think categorically, you have trouble seeing how similar or different two things are. If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
The biologies of strong love and strong hate are similar in many ways, as we'll see.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.
~ Joseph Fourier
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
~ Thomas Sowell
The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.
~ Alan Hodgkin
I thought of the similarities of complaints--always selfishness, always blindness--and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.
~ Alain de Botton
Life in Australia is more equal and less competitive than in America; but there are dozens of similarities...migrations to a new land, the mystique of pioneering (actually somewhat different in the two countries), the turbulence of gold rushes, the brutality of relaxed restraint, the boredoms of the backblocks, the feeling of making life anew. There may be more similarities between the history of Australia and America than for the moment Australians can understand.
~ Donald Horne
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.
~ Gary Lineker
Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.
~ Tom Cotton