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On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. — Stephen Jay Gould
Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles.… — Elon Musk
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things. — Israel Zangwill
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is… — John N. Bahcall
The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is… — John Templeton
Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does… — Thomas Huxley
Life is like an analogy. — Aaron Allston
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message… — Charles Kennedy
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the… — John Drinkwater
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. — Carlos Fuentes
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. — Michael Mandelbaum
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting of the sun… — Marcel Duchamp
The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there, but you don't… — John Romero
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;… — Samuel Johnson
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant. — Charles Lyell
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as… — Charles Hodge
The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,… — Herman Melville
Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would… — Ellen DeGeneres
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the… — Walter Bagehot
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the… — Gerhard Richter
I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every… — Gerhard Richter
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world.… — Unknown Author

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