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Quotes About Similarities

People are qualitatively the same but may differ quantitatively. The quantitative differences are small in biological terms, and they are found to a far greater extent among the individual members of an ethnic group or race than between ethnic groups or races. These are reassuring findings. Any racist ideology that holds that the members of an ethnic group are all alike, or that one ethnic group differs fundamentally from another, is based on false assumptions about our biology.
~ Steven Pinker
Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.
~ Theodor Adorno
Lobsters have more in common with you than you might think (particularly when you are feeling crabby—ha ha).
~ Jordan B. Peterson
La envidia y la emulación parientes dicen que son; aunque en todo diferentes al fin también son parientes el diamante y el carbón.
~ José Ingenieros
They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.
~ Joseph O'Connor
The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.
~ Betsy Byars
A man can't love you because you haven't read as many books as he has? He can't love you because you don't speak French or because you don't go to operas? You're telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?
~ Billie Letts
I love Penelope Cruz and Tilda Swinton, and I love Marisa Tomei. I feel like I get compared to her a lot, which I think is the biggest compliment, because she's incredible. Debi Mazar I get a lot, and I love her, because I feel like we have similar stories. New York, club kid, just a complete train wreck, very independent.
~ Julia Fox
One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.
~ Shayna Baszler
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
~ Demetri Martin
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Developing relationships is a very important part of doing business, and I see more similarities than differences when I travel the world.
~ Dan Quayle
When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.
~ Garrison Wynn
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
~ Thomas J. Watson
Ich war ein wenig verstört über unsere offensichtlichen Gemeinsamkeiten, hatte ich doch gemeint, Lichtjahre von ihm entfernt zu sein.
~ Sibylle Berg
When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.
~ Sir James George Frazer
They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.
~ Carol Leifer
The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
~ Maya Angelou
We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
~ Maya Angelou
In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.
~ Maya Angelou
We are more alike than we are unalike! That
~ Maya Angelou
Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Although, conscious of the similarities they shared with Zen, Jesuits in Japan stressed the differences.
~ Bernard Faure
All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
~ Wendy Kopp