Identical Quotes

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

  J. K. Rowling

  Love, Spiritual, Heart

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ch. 37 (2000)

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• The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Anxiety, Pleasure, Form

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical, and significantly different from that of a pig or horse. You may be impressed by how much human beings differ from one another, but if you were to look into the fine details of the molecules of which they are constructed, you would be astonished by their similarity.

  Francis Crick

  Horse, Science, Pigs

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• … Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Heart, Lines, Empty

  Gustave Flaubert (1949). “Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary”

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• Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Ethos, Catholic

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Two, Mind, Action

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• Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Two, People

  "The Overton Window". Book by Carroll Quigley, June 15, 2010.

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• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Graduation, Senior

  "A Few Tips for the Graduates". The Topeka Capital-Journal, abcnews.go.com. May 20, 2007.

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• When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit.

  Christopher Walken

  Kids, Son, Men

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• The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

  Murray Walker

  Unique, Motor Racing, Nascar Racing

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  Alan Watts

  Taught Us, Common Sense, Culture

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• Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

  E. M. Forster

  Filth, Pathos, Piety

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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• History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

  Marc Bloch

  Spring, Two, History

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• Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

  Gerald Edelman

  Over You, Brain, Gone

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• The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

  Johann Most

  Anarchist, Communist, Aim

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• I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

  Stephen Rea

  Years, Wife, Matter

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• I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Money, Winning

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• Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

  Karl Barth

  Piety

  "The Beginnings of Dialectic Theology". Book edited by James McConkey Robinson, Volume 1, 1968.

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• The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Sex, Species

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• In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

  Humphry Davy

  Matter, Causes, Energy

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• Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Life, Gold, Littles

  "Annie Allen". Book by Gwendolyn Brooks, 1949.

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• If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

  Marcel Carne

  Two, Film, Should

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• To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Simple, Men, Choices

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• No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

  Michael Ende

  People, House, Design

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• You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

  Robert Breault

  Too Much, Twins, Wonder

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