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Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

— Edward Norton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

— Jeffrey Kluger

The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

— Sam Underwood

Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life - depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.

— Michael Greger

I've always been fascinated with twins.

— Winona Ryder

I've always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling.

— Mary Ellen Mark

True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.

— Gregory Benford

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

— Linda Ellerbee

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

— Ashley Olsen

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

— Larry Dixon

✗Opposing Perspectives

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

— A. S. Byatt