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Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply. — Marie Clay
No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind — Napoleon Hill
Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky.… — Hazel Hawke
The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self.… — Deepak Chopra
This great circle of sisters will be a protection for each of you and for your families. The Relief Society might be likened to a… — Boyd K. Packer
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup… — Yoshida Kenko
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -… — George Eliot
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in… — Nikola Tesla
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed,… — Mao Zedong
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.… — Pema Chodron
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing… — Gail Carriger
Odd that a thing is most itself when likened — Richard Wilbur
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it… — James Allen
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. — James Allen
[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game… — O. Henry
Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not… — Shashi Tharoor
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings… — John McDonald
I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole… — Rose Tremain
He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The… — The Talmud

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