#semblance

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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

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


Anne Louise Germaine de Stael


#consists #differ #difference #knowing #resemblance

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


Madame de Stael


#among #between #differ #difference #lies

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.


Lewis Thomas


#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.


Ben Harper


#away #burn #find #make #only

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.


Kirstie Alley


#children #give #had #hardest #having

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.


Ben Affleck


#bears #cocksure #described #feel #i

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.


Leo Kottke


#anything #bear #because #find #guitar