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• Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Dance, Meditation, Messages

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• Language is memory and metaphor.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Language

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.5, A&C Black

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• The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.
  And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.

  Byron Katie

  Honesty, Integrity, Divorce

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• The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

  Norman Cousins

  Book, Ideas, Historical

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

  Walker Percy

  Writing, Titles, Should

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• The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

  David Perkins

  Sports, Teaching, Learning

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• Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.

  Starhawk

  Knowing, Doctrine, Way

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Real, Thinking

  "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.

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• The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

  Gayle Forman

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Self

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Aug 02, 2013

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• To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.

  Sherman Paul

  Dance, Dancing, Movement

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• But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

  Donald Antrim

  Cycling, Race, Missing

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• All words, in every language, are metaphors.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Language

  Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

  Walter Mosley

  Teach, Condensation, Specificity

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• Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Religious, Atheist

  Joseph Campbell (2010). “Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Art, Nature

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• Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Determination, Dedication, Work Ethic

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• The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

  William Rehnquist

  Wall, Judging, Scary

  Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 1985.

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• Remus Lupin was supposed to be on the H.I.V. metaphor. It was someone who had been infected young, who suffered stigma, who had a fear of infecting others, who was terrified he would pass on his condition to his son. And it was a way of examining prejudice, unwarranted prejudice towards a group of people. And also, examining why people might become embittered when they're treated that unfairly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Son, People, Way

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• In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Garden, Leader

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• Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Essence, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.83, Random House

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• We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact.

  Murray Rothbard

  Suicide, Government, People

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Constructs, Trapped

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• Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

  Jack Zipes

  Mean, Fairy Tale, Conquer

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• The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

  Larry Dossey

  Life, Spiritual, Garden

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