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One good analogy is worth three hours discussion. Dudley Field Malone

Good Worth Three Analogy Hours Discussion

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting. Jonathan Safran Foer

Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken. Akio Toyoda

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. George Eliot

World Analogy Possibilities Hopeful Dubious Eggs Handsome Full

If there's a swarm of bees outside an open window, it might be a good idea to close the window, even if a few bees have already flown into the house. Somehow, Democrats who oppose shutting the border don't see the analogy. Mike Gallagher

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body. Muhammad Iqbal

Life Soul Universe Analogy Touch Divine Contact Body Whole

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. A. R. Ammons

Interior Walk First Analogy Seeking Take Between First Of All Internal External

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. Barry Unsworth

You Feeling Live Profit Consequences Analogy Distasteful Reckoning Kind See Total Some Strongly More Economic Perfect Through Doctrines Wrote Devotion Without Trade Inescapable How Were Motive Began Model Human Really Slave

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. Benjamin Disraeli

Political Independence Analogy Physical Miracle Principle Nationality Race

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. Carlos Fuentes

Imagination Analogy Lot Use Film Images

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 a whole. Charles Hodge

Experience Church Analogy Intimate Individual Between Aggregate Whole Believer Believers

I think it's absolutely clear that the fiscal path we are on is not sustainable, and for me, the best analogy is these deficits are like a cancer, and over time they will destroy the country from within. Erskine Bowles

Time Best Me Cancer Path Will Country Think Analogy Deficits Destroy Absolutely Clear Over Like Within Fiscal Sustainable

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. Giacomo Casanova

Memory Human Being Mind Made Analogy Examine Only Existence Precede Human Being Order Cannot Formed Therefore Comparisons

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. Isaac Newton

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. Joel Hodgson

Remember First Think Analogy Cartoon Cecil Watching

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part. John Deacon

Best You Together Learning Theatre Analogy Everything See More Part Like Know Effect Yes Get Going Being Where Place Show Whole Works Rehearsed Actor Play Things

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 highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. John Drinkwater

Government Best People Will Analogy Say Kind Take Highest Most Democratic Realisation Mean Fulfills Function

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. Lukas Foss

Work Money Thief Analogy Took Stealing He Know Does How How Much How Much Money Did Stole Artist Want Much Whom Why

I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique. Mitchell Joachim

You Vision Same Thing Analogy Cities Gym David Physique Never Drives Ideal Like Look Beckham Go Goal Same Going May Just Want Plan Then Certain Use Your Certain Things Thing Things Need

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on our minds, our wetware - it's based on analogy. The law is more flexible; software is more rigid. Various laws tend to be batched in jurisdictional silos. Software tends to be independent. Nick Szabo

Strong Law Smart Made Analogy Software Our Minds Distinction Independent Rigid Physical Laws More Various Tend Tends Contacts Between Dry Wet Flexible Code Based

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. Niklaus Wirth

You People Programming Analogy Others Religions Tend Like Look Another Styles Fallacy Cannot Languages Many Belong

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