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Life is like an analogy.
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
I'm really great at making terrible analogies.
One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.
Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
If al-Qaida, all apologies to Microsoft for the analogy, is Windows 1, Daish is Windows 5.
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.
I like 'Bright.' Some people didn't like 'Bright' - I loved it. I love that film for how blatantly obvious the analogies are.
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
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.
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.
Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
We're making this analogy that AI is the new electricity. Electricity transformed industries: agriculture, transportation, communication, manufacturing.
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.
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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 across.
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.
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.
I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.
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.
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.
Government should support - and benefits from - economic development and settlement. The oft-used analogy of building highways and supporting infrastructure - not driving the vehicles or the industry - fits.