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Faith is never identical with piety. -- Karl Barth
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. -- Edward Norton
The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. -- Murray Walker
The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. -- Andre Bazin
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. -- Thomas Aquinas
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real. -- Muhammad Iqbal
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. -- Robert Orben
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. -- Alan Watts
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. -- Marc Bloch
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. -- Margaret Fuller
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
Identical twins. I'm glad they're identical 'cause you save money on photographs. That's what I like. Yeah. Here's my little boy. I got another one just like it. -- Ray Romano
No two wars are identical. -- Kate Adie
The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical. -- Norm MacDonald
We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships. -- Gavin MacLeod
If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings. -- Marcel Carne
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. -- J. K. Rowling
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? -- Brian Greene
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights. -- Stephen Gardiner
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
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. -- Wilhelm Reich
Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
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
The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin. -- Sam Underwood
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
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind. -- Johannes Peter Muller
To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
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
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. -- Conrad Black
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. -- Wilfrid Laurier
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? -- Humphry Davy
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God. -- Annie Besant
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. -- Victor Hugo
When I was a kid, I worked in the circus. It was a touring circus that was owned by a man named Terrell Jacobs. It was just one big tent, and he was a lion tamer. He didn't have any kids, but the bit was that I would dress up as his son in an identical outfit. -- Christopher Walken
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
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
Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Wow, we're identical! -- J. K. Rowling
This is the better one. It's identical. -- Alan Shearer
Our approach and our vision ... is identical. -- Jacques Chirac
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries -- Albert Pike
There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins. -- Ozzy Osbourne
The finger of God never leaves identical fingerprints. -- Bill Vaughan
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment. -- Moses Finley
No two moments are identical in a conscious being -- Henri Bergson
For not all things are practicable on identical principles -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
My conclusion on Freewill and predestination- they are identical. -- Winston Churchill
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical. -- Johann Most
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people. -- Charles Bukowski
With identical twins, you always get a little snidey one. -- Karl Pilkington
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing. -- Phyllis Diller
Then I saw you through myself and found we were identical. -- Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
What is lawful is not always identical to what is right. -- Ian Mcewan
We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests. -- Gerhard Schroder
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States. -- Bruce Catton
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. -- Marilynne Robinson
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. -- William James
The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language. -- Oscar Wilde
But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. -- Carl Sagan
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves. -- Matsuo Basho
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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God. -- Meher Baba
You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. -- Robert Breault
Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions. -- Rick Riordan
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art. -- Charles Baudelaire
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. -- Aristotle
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman. -- Mignon McLaughlin
All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths. -- Kenneth Fisher
The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear. -- Barry Libert
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. -- E. M. Forster
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The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite. -- Neal Shusterman
The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. -- Roman Jakobson
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. -- Plotinus
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. -- Irvin D. Yalom
The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world. -- Paul Virilio
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing. -- Julian Baggini
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange. -- Edgar Wright
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. -- David Foster Wallace
What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical? -- Steven Erikson
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical. -- Alexander MacLaren
Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative. -- John Dewey
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first. -- Aaron Levie
The war on drugs is identical to the prohibition of alcohol: all you're doing is making criminals rich and powerful. -- Jesse Ventura
Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception. -- Louise Colet
HermÃ¨s and my own brand share the same philosophy, the same vision of women, but the two aren't identical. -- Christophe Lemaitre
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. -- Gustave Flaubert
Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity. -- Gustav Holst
In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening. -- Frank Gehry
Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. -- Jonathan Nolan
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. -- Margaret Sanger
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. -- Audre Lorde
Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently. -- Samuel R. Delany
God is identical with His attributes, so that it may be said that He is the knowledge, the knower, and the known. -- Maimonides
First we have to understand that we are not the mind! We are identical with neither its bright, nor its dark side! -- Frank M. Wanderer
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
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical -- Charles Frazier
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical. -- Winston Churchill
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. -- Joshua L. Liebman
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical. -- Joseph Conrad
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse. -- John Crowley
The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before. -- Ransom Riggs
Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity. -- Krishnananda Saraswati
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical. -- Thomas Carlyle
Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it. -- Bryan Swanson
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
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things. -- Erez Lieberman Aiden
No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin. -- Peter Straughan
I am unable to distinguish clearly between your religious ceremonies and apparently identical behavior at the sporting and cultural functions you have transmitted to me. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress. -- Russell Kirk
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real. -- Umberto Eco
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
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst. -- Bob Black

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