#resembles

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. ↗

— George Sand

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Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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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

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All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking. ↗

— Robert Hass

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Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work. ↗

— John Thorn

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My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs. ↗

— Elie Saab

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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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