{"quotes":[{"text":"Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["alike","being-different","being-different","being-similar","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","others","others","others","plenty-of","refuse","similar","similarity","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":36646,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["goals","similarity","success"],"id":66023,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.","author":"Em Bailey","tags":["metaphor","sameness","similarity"],"id":80444,"author_id":"Em+Bailey"},{"text":"It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...Sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.","author":"Marie Lu","tags":["relationship","sameness","similarity"],"id":90046,"author_id":"Marie+Lu"},{"text":"The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is that 'they are important in their own roles'! Each is unique! You are unique too. Take the lead!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["comparison","dreams","food-for-thought","function","israelmore-ayivor","lead","purpose","roles","shovel","similar","similarity","sizes","spade","spoon","talents","unique","use"],"id":157711,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"...This clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["conflict","history","religion","science","similarity","statement"],"id":170893,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["humans","ice","isolation","similarity"],"id":193050,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.","author":"Ben Abix","tags":["interpretation-of-literature","life","perception-of-others","reading","similarities","similarity","words-of-wisdom"],"id":253700,"author_id":"Ben+Abix"},{"text":"To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic framework, this possibility, though not precluded, is also not the only game in town. It's possible for descent with modification instead to be driven by telic processes inherent in nature (and thus by a form of design). Alternatively, it's possible that the similarities are not due to descent at all but result from a similarity of conception, just as designed objects like your TV, radio, and computer share common components because designers frequently recycle ideas and parts. Teasing apart the effects of intelligent and natural causation is one of the key questions confronting a design-theoretic research program. Unlike Darwinism, therefore, intelligent design has no immediate and easy answer to the question of common descent.Darwinists necessarily see this as a bad thing and as a regression to ignorance. From the design theorists' perspective, however, frank admissions of ignorance are much to be preferred to overconfident claims to knowledge that in the end cannot be adequately justified. Despite advertisements to the contrary, science is not a juggernaut that relentlessly pushes back the frontiers of knowledge. Rather, science is an interconnected web of theoretical and factual claims about the world that are constantly being revised and for which changes in one portion of the web can induce radical changes in another. In particular, science regularly confronts the problem of having to retract claims that it once confidently asserted.","author":"William A. Dembski","tags":["biology","conclusions","darwinism","evidence","evolution","homology","id","ignorance","intelligent-design","interpretation","knowldge","origin-of-life","science","similarities","similarity","universal-common-descent"],"id":276524,"author_id":"William+A.+Dembski"},{"text":"It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters form a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind them together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation of their various ties. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.","author":"John Jay","tags":["fortune","similarity","strength"],"id":290451,"author_id":"John+Jay"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}