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• A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

  Christopher Vogler

  Thinking, Self, Profound

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• History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Offering, Generations, Recipes

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• Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Cutting

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• My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.

  James Alison

  Gay, Humanity, Minorities

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Exercise, Cutting, Emotional

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• The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Leadership, Past, Tasks

  Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”

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• The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beauty, Body, Doe

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form: A Study in Ideal Form”, p.370, Princeton University Press

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• Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.

  Bob Marshall

  Distance, Fall, Black

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• In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It's growing and flying and it's experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.

  Karan Bajaj

  Beautiful, Yoga, Journey

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• E-books are impervious to analogy.

  Scott Adams

  Book, Library, Impervious

  "A Cartoonist's Venture Into the World of E-Books" by Scott Adams, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 2001.

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• The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

  Kenneth Clark

  Eye, Looks, May

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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• In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders.

  George Andrews

  Strong, Wine, Science

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• I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.

  John Lindsay

  Way, Fossils, Energy

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our planet, and the potential for scariness on our planet. Being chased by anyone or anything can be scary. It is just a big, fun analogy.

  Mireille Enos

  Fun, Thinking, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.

  Tony Robbins

  Wall, Track, Car

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 23, 2015

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• If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

  Peter Morgan

  Distance, Events, Stories

  "The Fifth Estate: When biopic subjects strike back" by Will Morley, www.bbc.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.

  Gao Xingjian

  Distance, Symbolism, White

  "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1989.

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• The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Philosophy, Real, Numbers

  "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" edited by Ken Wilber, 1984.

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• Proof by analogy is fraud.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Proof, Fraud

  Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Independent, Emotional

  "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.

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• The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Independent, Science, Discovery

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

  John Gribbin

  Reality, Significant Things, Everyday

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• But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process

  Isocrates

  Art, Men, Creative

  Isocrates (1962). “Isocrates”, Loeb Classical Library

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• I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.

  Sloane Crosley

  Dog, Block, Thinking

  "Sloane Crosley Talks About Writing Her First Novel, The Clasp". Interview with A.M. Homes, www.vulture.com. May 31, 2015.

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• The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.

  Richard van der Riet Woolley

  Future, Believe, Space

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