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Metaphor Quotes
"Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
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Benjamin Franklin
"Everything is a symbol of something else."
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Fernando Pessoa
"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke"
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Lynda Barry
"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds"
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Herbert Simon
"Better to slide thither on a plank than cling to the rocks of a hostile shore"
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Herman Melville
"Man is an amphibious creature – a being who cannot live in the water and cannot live out of it "
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Aldous Huxley
"Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world"
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Jimmy Buffett
"Reality is a cliche from which we escape by metaphor."
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Anne Sexton
"People will insist on treating the mons veneris as though it were Mount Everest."
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Aldous Huxley
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
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Confucius
"The darkness declares the glory of light"
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T. S. Eliot
"As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward that sun which is rising in the sky of history."
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Walter Benjamin
"We are like eggs at present. And you cannot "
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C. S. Lewis
"It is nought good a sleping hound to wake"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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