Sameness Quotes - Page 3

• Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

  Hsu Yun

  Strong, Buddhist, Heart

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• Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Savior without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvation, and God.

  Curtis Hutson

  Change, Trust, God

  Curtis Hutson (2000). “Salvation Crystal Clear”, p.331, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  History, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2009). “Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

  Matt Dillon

  Greatest Fear, Growth, Important

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• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

  John Gardner

  Childhood, Feel Good, Age

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.9, Vintage

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• Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

  Ian Mcewan

  Giving, Enduring Love, Pleasure

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• Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness.

  Alan Cohen

  Lying, Community, Society

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• Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Risk

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

  E. B. White

  Love, Happiness, Sheep

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• People have foolishly mistaken equality for sameness. Equality of the genders means that both have equal value and worth, and one is not better than the other. But it doesn't mean we're all exactly the same. And many of us who still believe in gender separation say, 'Vive la difference!

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Mean, Differences

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• Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? So I don't feel like that part of it changes. I have not reached the point - if there's a point you reach as an actor where it's, "Oh, I got this figured out, I know how to do this". But I am happy to say that the primary building blocks of where you start, at least, there is a little bit of sameness to that. And that's always nice.

  Greg Kinnear

  Nice, Block, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Nothing is more fatiguing than winter, the extreme and unrelenting snow and below zero temperatures, and the seemingly unbearable sameness of the days without sunshine, and the measures one takes - if they're locals, permanent residents - against an environment such as this. And most vulnerable/susceptible are the kids, who have no options other than to scheme and dream themselves into all kinds of trouble.

  Jack Driscoll

  Dream, Kids, Sunshine

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Yoke, Want, Moments

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press

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• The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.

  Peter Bodo

  Running, Jeans, Blue

  Peter Bodo (1995). “The Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in a Harsh New World of Professional Tennis”, Scribner Book Company

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• The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

  Don DeLillo

  Want, Failing, Said

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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• When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cubicles, Flesh, Don't Change

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that necessity constantly to demonstrate masculine sameness, which provided one of the most flattening sources of uniformity.

  Donald Horne

  Sports, Drinking, Beer

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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Contentment, Shade, Taught

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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• Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through their collective sameness. The "poets of society," the men who challenged the norms, would have to be silenced so that sameness could be maintained.

  Richard Sennett

  Men, Saws, Dignity

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• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Giving, Originality

  'Passionate State of Mind' (1955) p. 21

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• Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Race, Appreciate

  "The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness". Book edited by Sidney Piburn. "Kindness and Compassion" p. 47, 1990.

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• The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

  George Eliot

  Life, Heart, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Romola: Top Novelist Focus”, p.6, 谷月社

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• There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.

  Mario Andretti

  Beach, Real, Character

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• I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Past, Drawing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

  Bennett Cerf

  Independent, Tvs, Urges

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