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For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike. Edwin Markham Alike 171
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. Thucydides Alike 145
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike. Blaise Pascal Alike 105
If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary. Larry Dixon Alike 101
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. Antonio Porchia Alike 91
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. Michael Kinsley Alike 85
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. Havelock Ellis Alike 74
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Alike 72
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. Dale Earnhardt Alike 71
Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. Joseph Lancaster Alike 71
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln Alike 67
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. John Steinbeck Alike 67
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. David Dinkins Alike 66
Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. Gottfried Leibniz Alike 65
The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past. Norbert Wiener Alike 60
Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel. John Spratt Alike 58
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths. Ellsworth Huntington Alike 56
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. Eudora Welty Alike 55
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. Marc Bloch Alike 55
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. George Orwell Alike 54
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. Richard Henry Lee Alike 50
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. Oliver Evans Alike 48
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. Anders Zorn Alike 47
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. Walter Pater Alike 47
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. John F. Kennedy Alike 46
It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves. Anthony Collins Alike 46
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope Alike 46
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world. George Dennison Prentice Alike 45
Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. Henry Cabot Lodge Alike 45
If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another. Paul Bowles Alike 44
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected. Charles Francis Richter Alike 43
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. Melvin Maddocks Alike 41
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. Petrarch Alike 40
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. Alban Berg Alike 37
Marble is not alike in all countries. Marcus V. Pollio Alike 37
Fear and hope are alike underneath. Richard Ford Alike 35
Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens. Ronald Steel Alike 30
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards. Shirley Williams Alike 29
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike. Pat Brown Alike 29
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. David Mallet Alike 28
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. Ursula K. Le Guin Alike 25
They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them. Denis Kearney Alike 24

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