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• The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, Laughing, Primates

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• If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

  Paul Johnson

  Differences, Evil, Pits

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• In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Real, Character, Weight

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• History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Race, Numbers, People

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Optimistic, Years, Optimism

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• The similarities between me and my father are different.

  Dale Berra

  Father, Silly, Dumb

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• We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.

  Kyle Bradley

  Opposites, Two, Wife

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• The only thing my father and I have in common is that our similarities are different.

  Dale Berra

  Baseball, Father, Different

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• There is an old Italian proverb about the nature of translation: "Traddutore, traditore!" This means simply, "Translators-traitors!" Of course, as you can see, something is lost in the translation of this pithy expression: there is great similarity in both the spelling and the pronunciation of the original saying, but these get diluted once they are put in English dress. Even the translation of this proverb illustrates its truth!

  Daniel Wallace

  Mean, Biblical, Italian

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• As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

  George Soros

  Fall, Investing, Financial

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I felt that this player is playing with a style similar to mine, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two...his compactness, technique, stroke production - it all seemed to gel!

  Donald Bradman

  Player, Two, Wife

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.

  Barney Chavous

  Sports, Football, Exercise

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• The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.

  Steven Zaillian

  Directors, Done, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I wrote Wakolda at first I wasn't conscious that I was writing about something so close to or that had so many similar elements with XXY. It was just after I was done writing that I noticed it. I think both teenagers in each film have many similarities, and Mengele is the extreme version of the plastic surgeon in XXY. Both stories definitely have several ideas connecting them.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, America, Matter

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

  Doug Liman

  Home, Deep Love, Games

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian scholars have managed not to see it, and this, one must suspect, for dogmatic reasons.

  Robert M. Price

  Christian, Pagan, Reason

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• I think the one thing specifically that is most consistent, is that we want to harken back to martial arts movies because that's kind of the genre we're paying tribute to, so there are some similarities to a lot of films, because they all feed off each other!

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Art, Thinking, Want

  "The Women of “Kung Fu Panda 3”: Girlpower in the World of Animation" by Leslie Combemale, www.indiewire.com. February 1, 2016.

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• There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  People, Young, Respectability

  "This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2016.

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• Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to note in 1932, is not to do philosophy, but is at best a preparation.

  Jay L. Garfield

  Philosophy, Differences, Preparation

  "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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• I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

  Glenn Branca

  Guitar, Play, Symphony

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Reading, Drinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Children, Differences

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When you jump on a city bus or roam the streets off the major thoroughfares you'll quickly learn that we have as many differences as similarities. And therein lie the greatest opportunities for innovation - our different ways of viewing the world and coming up with solutions!

  David Livermore

  Lying, Opportunity, Differences

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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