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"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright… — Carl Jung
For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — Plutarch
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of… — Henri Poincare
I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are… — Erskine Bowles
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through… — Gautama Buddha
The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability… — Albert Einstein
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and… — Charles Baudelaire
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national… — Sarah Palin
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it… — Bill Viola
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such… — John Searle
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy.… — Elon Musk
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a… — Jeff Bezos
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery, — James Geary
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not… — Susan Blackmore
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that… — John Gribbin
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of… — Isocrates
Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy… — Niklaus Wirth
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting… — Michael Mandelbaum
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms. — Eliphas Levi
Homage to Michael Snow's environmental sculpture 'Blind.' The film proposes analogies, in imitation of 3 historic montage styles, for three perceptual modes mimed by that… — Hollis Frampton
Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and… — Jane Roberts
If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them… — Ian Holloway
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key,… — Georges Seurat

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