We are more alike than unlike, my dear Captain…I have pores. Humans have pores. I have… fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me…do I not…leak? – Lt. Cmdr. Data Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Naked Now’.
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike
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
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. – Michael Kinsley