Similarity Quotes

• Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
  Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.

  Tom Robbins

  Differences, Common, Fascinated

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• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  M. Scott Peck

  Soulmate, Acceptance, Differences

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• We are more alike than unalike.

  Maya Angelou

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• 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

  Friendship, Real, Two

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• We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

  Virginia Satir

  Differences, Together, Bases

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

  Theodor Adorno

  Love, Love Is, Romance

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.191, Verso

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• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Lying, Inspiration

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• Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are.

  Matt Lauer

  Funny, Marijuana, Two

  "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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• When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust.

  Garrison Wynn

  Differences, Looks, Barriers

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• In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Differences, Stories

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• People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Beauty, Equality, Differences

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• Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Differences, People, Perception

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Differences, Oppression, Oppressors

  Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

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• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Differences, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.

  Youngme Moon

  Two, Differences, World

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• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.4.

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• It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Spiritual Wisdom

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Differences, Different

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, p.266, Encounter Books

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• The wounded recognized the wounded.

  Nora Roberts

  Recognition, Recognizing, Recognise

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.309, Penguin

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• It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world

  Artie Lange

  Guy, Boss, World

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• 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

  Trust, Essence, Building

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• It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for the first time a man (the actor) deceptively similar to us, yet at the same time infinitely foreign, beyond an impassable barrier.

  Tadeusz Kantor

  Men, Opposites, Acting

  Tadeusz Kantor (1993). “A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990”, p.114, Univ of California Press

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• It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Men, Two

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.114

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