#resemblance

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#common #convinced #much #resemblance #stupid

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#another #our #ourselves #polite #recognition

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#democracy #dictator #elected #even #him

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

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It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#close #come #first #i #politics

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#biggest #biggest mistakes #cling #closer #film

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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