Identical Quotes - Page 14

• Wow, we're identical!

  J. K. Rowling

  Wow, Weasley, Harry Potter

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.52, Pottermore

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• All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

  Leila Aboulela

  Men, Clothes, Toilets

  Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.

  Steve Sailer

  Real, Differences, Glasses

  "A Short, Stylized Dialogue On Epigenetics". www.vdare.com. October 26, 2012.

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• The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Real, Men

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• ...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Results, Absolutes

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• A Christian woman's true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate...humble obedience...but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christian, Sex, Lying

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• I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Teenager, Philosophical, Boys

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Researchers have found that identical twins who have been separated for long periods of time actually invest in a similar manner. Biology really does affect how we spend money.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Long, Doe, Twins

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What the soul is doing is kind of walking through the forms, and so our experience of thinking isn't normally this kind of pure intuitive insight that intellect gets, and that intellect must get right, because it's always identical to its objects, it's always the same as the forms that it's thinking about.

  Peter Adamson

  Thinking, Soul, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• ...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination, but also to counteract discrimination's lingering effects. Those effects, reflective of a system of racial caste [legal segregation and discrimination] only recently ended, are evident in our work places, markets, and neighborhoods. Job applicants with identical resumes, qualifications, and interview styles still experience different receptions, depending on their race.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Jobs, Persistence, Race

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• Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

  Albert Pike

  Mystery, Ancient, Masonry

  Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Running, Unique

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• Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.

  George Bird Evans

  Friendship, Dog, Gun

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• Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

  Jacques Vallee

  Culture, Stories, Voyages

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• The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Understanding, Facts, Unexpected

  Fear and Trembling "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" (1843)

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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... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Years, Taught Us

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• The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

  Mark Salzman

  Mother, Children, Nurse

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• The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Destiny, Two, Astrology

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• Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

  Jeff Ross

  Achievement, Age, Canada

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• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  Yvon Chouinard

  War, Kids, Unique

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.119, Penguin

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• In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Men, Skills, Miracle

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

  Leo Strauss

  Rejection, Nihilism, Natural

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

  Thom Yorke

  Brother, Car, Twins

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• It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Artist, Ideas, Should

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

  Louise Colet

  Art, Successful, Flirting

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