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It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. -- Mary Astor
You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. -- Zadie Smith
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. -- Audre Lorde
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent. -- William Bernbach
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
There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does. -- Wayne Dyer
That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks - but almost nothing demands repeated listenings. Similarly, he always sounds like he's singing up a storm, but his voice glosses over the material, reducing most things to an uninteresting sameness. -- Jon Landau
Unity does not mean sameness. It means oneness of purpose. -- Priscilla Shirer
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. -- Captain Beefheart
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. -- Petrarch
People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth. -- Bruce Lee
Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness. -- Ian Mcewan
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. -- John Cheever
My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination. -- John Oliver Killens
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. -- John Gardner
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. -- Emily Giffin
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
If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention. -- E. B. White
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
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality. -- Longchenpa
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. -- bell hooks
Sameness is what marketers want us to want. -- Thomas M. Disch
Sameness of existence. Conformity is inevitable. So is search. -- Aporva Kala
Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There's a sameness and comfort level you get living in a country like America. -- Phil Keoghan
I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything. -- Captain Beefheart
It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference. -- Pankaj Mishra
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
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness. -- Lois Lowry
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
One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready. -- Carlton Cuse
Half of your power lies in your sameness with others. The other half lies in your uniqueness. -- Alan Cohen
It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness. -- Frank Gehry
Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal. -- Erich Fromm
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Boredom is the keynote of poverty ... it's dark brown sameness. -- Moss Hart
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. -- James Russell Lowell
TV's sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought. -- Bennett Cerf
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. -- Lewis Thomas
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. -- Emma Goldman
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight. -- Edward Abbey
The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you. -- Lady Gaga
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. -- Harriet Lerner
You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters. -- Amy Jo Martin
Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial. -- Jane Jacobs
The opposite of heterosexual desire is the eroticising of sameness, a sameness of power, equality and mutuality. It is homosexual desire. -- Sheila Jeffreys
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian... -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly. -- Erik Erikson
A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images. -- Hakim Bey
What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change? -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it. -- Rush Limbaugh
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios. -- Aristotle
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
It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace. -- David Brier
It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god. -- Robert Frost
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
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration. -- Patanjali
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

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