Sameness Quotes - Page 6

• There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

  John Cheever

  Alcohol, Metaphor, Terrible

  John Cheever (1989). “The Letters of John Cheever”, Touchstone Books

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• There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Going Away

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• But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  William Osler

  Men, Doctors, Tragedy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.49, ACP Press

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• Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Want, Commerce, Marketers

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Brother, Men, People

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.49

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• We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Education, School, Development

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.

  Zadie Smith

  Brother, Mistake, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Winter, Ice, Snow

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• Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

  Lois Lowry

  Letting Go, Sunshine, Color

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.

  Luisa Casati

  Beautiful, Personality, Desire

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• I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.

  Mark Twain

  Clothes, Arbitrary, Use

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 6: 1874-1875”, p.660, Univ of California Press

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• My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

  John Oliver Killens

  Fighting, Justice, Diversity

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• Americans continue to rapidly homogenize ourselves into a neutered oblivion. For a country founded on the protection of the unique, we relish our sameness.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Unique, Protection

  Lewis Black, Hank Gallo (2005). “Nothing's Sacred”

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• And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

  Emily Giffin

  Sometimes, Old Movie

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.248, St. Martin's Griffin

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