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• Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

  Aristotle

  Art, States, Capacity

  Aristotle (2007). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.143, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Lying, Communication, Ideas

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. 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. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Ideas, Substance

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• Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Memories, Intelligent, Honor

  Anton Chekhov's letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 30, 1888.

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

  Carl Safina

  Trying, Doe, Albatross

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• A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Fall, Men, Enjoy

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• For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest of the world, which means the church should be more like a zoo than a tomb of identical mummies.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Zoos, Believe, Mean

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

  Norman Mailer

  Essence, World, Spirit

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence.

  Steven Pinker

  Gray Matter, Differences, Brain

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.73, Penguin

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• The concept of a divine, or 'Christ'-mind, is the idea that, at our core, we are not just identical, but actually the same being.

  Marianne Williamson

  Ideas, Mind, Christ

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Struggle, Echoes, Agency

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Biographia Literaria: Top Biography”, p.123, 谷月社

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• Absolutely, all guitars are different. You can go into a store and grab five guitars, all the same model, and even though they look identical they're not identical. They play differently, they feel a bit different and they sound slightly different.

  John McLaughlin

  Guitar, Play, Looks

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• Hermès and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Philosophy, Two, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

  Robert Jensen

  Country, Views, Political

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• What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

  Charles Stross

  Car, Today, Life Is

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Language, British, Courses

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• Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.

  Paul Hindemith

  Past, Perfection, Tears

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• I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don`t speak our language, these folks coming from other places - it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does.

  Chris Hayes

  Sound, Doe, Literature

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.

  Bill Gates

  Engineering, Bridges, Different

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• In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Nonfiction, Technique, Realizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.

  Christine Jennings

  Beautiful, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear.

  Barry Libert

  Army, Corporations, Cubes

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• What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.

  Ian Mcewan

  "Ian McEwan: the law versus religious belief" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2014.

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