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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. -- Edward Norton
There are no identical twins, or forgivable sins. -- Ozzy Osbourne
With identical twins, you always get a little snidey one. -- Karl Pilkington
You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. -- Robert Breault
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
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
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
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
Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others. -- Wally Lamb
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
Without identical twins, you'll never get to experience entering a hotel room with one of them and watching him run into the full-length mirror because he though he saw his brother. -- Ray Romano
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins. -- Gerald Edelman
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins. -- Richard Dawkins
I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today's identical twins. -- Lewis Thomas
In some domains it looks as though our identical twins reared apart are...just as similar as identical twins reared together. Now that's an amazing finding and I can assure you none of us would have expected that degree of similarity. -- Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr.
The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry. -- Mark Salzman
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
He had the kind of face only a mother could love. If that mother was blind in one eye, and had that sort of milky film over the other one, ya..ya know, ya know what I mean? But still he was my identical twin. -- Colin Mochrie
If you analyze a host of real world outcomes using adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty. -- Steve Sailer
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
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
Somehow this change was even scarier than all the people downstairs, because Jordan could have an identical twin; there could be kids who looked like his parents' childhood pictures. The bunk beds were impossible. -- Margaret Peterson Haddix

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