#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

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. ↗

— Hesiod

#how #know #many #real #real things

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

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

#council #debate #effort #either #more

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

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

— George Sand

#more #novel #novels #often #resemble

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

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. ↗

— Ahmet Necdet Sezner

#being #demands #elements #meet #modern