The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Aristotle

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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

Zac Goldsmith

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My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

Yves Saint Laurent

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I think Kimmich is a bit like Mascherano. They are similar type of players.

Xabi Alonso

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I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Willie Nelson

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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

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I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.

Guy Kawasaki

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Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Gloria Steinem

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To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Leonardo da Vinci

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Leo Tolstoy

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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

U Thant

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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Elvis Costello

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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Konrad Lorenz

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Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Konrad Lorenz

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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

R. A. Salvatore

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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Paulo Coelho

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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Isabel Allende

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

William Faulkner

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin

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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Kami Garcia

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

Virginia Satir

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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Teju Cole

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All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Cate Blanchett

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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Earl Warren

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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Mahavira

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Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Dan Brown

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Similarity of opinion is not alwaysâ€”I think not oftenâ€”needed for fullness and perfection of love.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

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I think Too Faced is the yin to my yang. When you look at Kat Von D beauty and Too Faced and put them together, they look like complete opposites, but there are tons of similarities.

Kat Von D

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My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

Hugh Jackman

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

David Bohm

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At times, Social Media can be the most unfair interactive platform you would ever imagine exists. Many targets of vile language dare not respond in similar manner due to responsibility or position. And those who use vile language are still hailed as the champions. Sad and strange

Festus Keyamo

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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences

Alan Watts

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Boko Haram have targeted Christians and Churches specifically because they know it drives forward religious and land tensions already existent in the country. Similarly, they attack mosques and Muslims in order to issue the threat: radicalize, or become targets yourselves.

Garba Shehu

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How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Amy Tan

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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Democritus

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This is similar to the moral hazard when political elites are beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded schemes.

Alex Magaisa

Moral hazard Political elites Are beneficiaries Taxpayer funded

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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.

Simone de Beauvoir

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We saw similar surges of young people signing up to run for office.Protesting was the beginning of their political engagement.

Amanda Litman

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Bearing a name that is similar doesnâ€™t matter,Grace differs.

Hotkid

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Each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

John Rawls

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Acting is not about being someone different. Itâ€™s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Meryl Streep

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Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Aristotle

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.

Zac Goldsmith

My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

Yves Saint Laurent

I think Kimmich is a bit like Mascherano. They are similar type of players.

Xabi Alonso

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Willie Nelson

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.

Guy Kawasaki

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Gloria Steinem

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Leonardo da Vinci

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Leo Tolstoy

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

U Thant

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.

Elvis Costello

In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.

Konrad Lorenz

Whenever we find, in two forms of life that are unrelated to each other, a similarity of form or of behaviour patterns which relates to more than a few minor details, we assume it to be caused by parallel adaptation to the same life-preserving function.

Konrad Lorenz

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

R. A. Salvatore

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Paulo Coelho

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Isabel Allende

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all

William Faulkner

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Kami Garcia

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

Virginia Satir

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Teju Cole

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Cate Blanchett

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

Earl Warren

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Mahavira

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

Dan Brown

Similarity of opinion is not alwaysâ€”I think not oftenâ€”needed for fullness and perfection of love.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

I think Too Faced is the yin to my yang. When you look at Kat Von D beauty and Too Faced and put them together, they look like complete opposites, but there are tons of similarities.

Kat Von D

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic.

Hugh Jackman

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.

David Bohm

At times, Social Media can be the most unfair interactive platform you would ever imagine exists. Many targets of vile language dare not respond in similar manner due to responsibility or position. And those who use vile language are still hailed as the champions. Sad and strange

Festus Keyamo

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences

Alan Watts

Boko Haram have targeted Christians and Churches specifically because they know it drives forward religious and land tensions already existent in the country. Similarly, they attack mosques and Muslims in order to issue the threat: radicalize, or become targets yourselves.

Garba Shehu

How can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Amy Tan

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Democritus

This is similar to the moral hazard when political elites are beneficiaries of taxpayer-funded schemes.

Alex Magaisa

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.