#resembles

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

— Franz Grillparzer

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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

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The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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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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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it. ↗

— Rene Magritte

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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

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

— Karl Popper

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What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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

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