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• We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.

  Charles Darwin

  Uplifting, Science, May

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Voyage of the Beagle: the Evolution”, p.224, VM eBooks

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Mean, Cat

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Character, Views

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.30, Penguin

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• The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven

  Pope Pius XII

  Son, Heaven, Church

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• I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous researches. Disgusted at my want of success, I went away to spend a few days at the seaside, and thought of entirely different things. One day, as I was walking on the cliff, the idea came to me, again with the same characteristics of conciseness, suddenness, and immediate certainty, that arithmetical transformations of indefinite ternary quadratic forms are identical with those of non-Euclidian geometry.

  Henri Poincare

  Success, Science, Ideas

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.649, Modern Library

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• God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

  Meher Baba

  Love, Divine, And Love

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• Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Ideas, Two

  Tom Stoppard (2014). “The Invention of Love”, p.27, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

  Neal Shusterman

  Home, People

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!

  J. K. Rowling

  Together, Wow, Said

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

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• Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

  Dan Brown

  Angel, Enemy, Battle

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.44, Random House

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• We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

  Donald Hall

  Men, Years, Shining

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Jobs, Animal

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

  Julian Baggini

  Might, Satisfaction, Flourishing

  "The secret to happiness? It's complicated" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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• The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

  Lysander Spooner

  Two, Dominion, Irresponsible

  Lysander Spooner (1972). “Let's Abolish Government”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

  Edward Norton

  Way, Twins, Identical Twin

  Interview with Landon Palmer, filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, People, News

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• Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Meaningful, Differences, Personality

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• Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dna, Swag

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• I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Mind, Acres

  Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins

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• Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Party, Mean

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• Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

  Brandon Boyd

  Art, Doe, Like You

  "Incubus front man Brandon Boyd true to his art". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2009.

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• My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical.

  Winston Churchill

  Conclusion, Predestination

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• It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Desire, Example

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• Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Brother

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Brother

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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