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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
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
Why do they call it proctology? Is it because analogy was already taken? — Aristotle
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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

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