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I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi

Christ, Christians

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison

Trust, Afraid, Advantage

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
Marcus Aurelius

Best, Revenge, Him

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
Barack Obama

Country, Energy, Another

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children, Themselves, Deceive

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar

Life, Society, Alone

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt Romney

Life, Marriage, Religion

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Important, Real

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Carroll O'Connor

Enemy, Artist, Detested

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
John Berger

Before, Rich, Poverty

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
E. M. Forster

Love, Bad, Boring

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Problems, Rarely, Dates

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Health, Care, Moral

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
Jim Carrey

Life, Anywhere, Truman

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money, Hollywood, Athletes

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

Work, Universe, Ahead

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
George Saunders

Life, Good, Truth

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal

Love, Hope, Future

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Power, Same, Cannot

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley

Actual, Explains, Fictional

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
Virginia Woolf

Longer, Ridiculous, Image

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown

Two, Born, Television

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.
Rush Limbaugh

Best, Else, Fact

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.
Hugh Jackman

Love, Marriage, Best

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Power

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Jessica Savitch

Marriage, Career, Same

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
Jeff Bridges

Business, Father, Kids

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
Marco Rubio

History, Today, Leader

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
Barbara Bush

Home, Hard, Working

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