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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
We each create a story - a narritive, a picture, an allegory, a model - for what's going on in the universe.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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“The Death of Allegory I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
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“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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