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Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped… — N. T. Wright
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing — John Searle
I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set… — Tayari Jones
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification — Robert Smithson
All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. — Paula Scher
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical. — Mark Mothersbaugh
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our… — Elliot W. Eisner
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT;… — Josef Albers
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The physically divided are… — Hakim Bey
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community… — Amy Waldman
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to the interests of… — Bhagat Singh
Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God… — Unknown Author
I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in… — Chris Kyle
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. — Alain Robert
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs,… — Brendon Urie
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties… — Josiah Bartlett
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise… — David Deida
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it.… — Neko Case
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal… — Howard S. Becker
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative,… — Russell Kirk
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other. — John Smith

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