#resemble

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#approached #assembly #capable #destroyed #enemy

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#almost #arises #cannot #conduct #imitation

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#closely #earned #i #imitate #imitating

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#assumed #class #collective #different #different people

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#fluent #her #like #mother #only

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#body #certain #community #economic #features

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#genius #lightning #like #resembles #sun