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Desperate times call for desperate analogies. — John Diamond
Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. — Stefan Banach
A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder.… — James Dyson
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch called it "essence… — Dennis Merzel
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. — Henry David Thoreau
Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend. — Seth Godin
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the… — Albert Hadley
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. — Joel Hodgson
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm… — Danny Hillis
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing… — Vaclav Smil
But, did the Divinity [of Christ] suffer? [...] The holy fathers explained this point through the aforementioned clear example of the red-hot iron, it is… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic,… — Elisabeth Leamy
It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. — Wendell Berry
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get… — Alan Watts
His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . . that's too much… — Manny Laureano
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why… — Gerhard Richter
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan
I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it,… — June Jordan
Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the… — Said Nursi
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? — Aristotle
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,… — John Robert Seeley
Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your… — Lee Kuan Yew
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of… — Richard Whately
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom

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