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“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”
Joseph Campbell quotes (American prolific Author, Editor, Philosopher and Teacher, 1904-1987)
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“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
Orson Scott Card quotes (American prolific and best-selling Author of numerous genres, especially science fiction. b.1951 Richland, Washington, USA)
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“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
Milan Kundera quotes (Czech Novelist, Playwright and Poet, b.1929)
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“It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”
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“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts”
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“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
Marshall McLuhan quotes (Canadian communications theorist Educator, Writer and Social Reformer, 1911-1980)
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“People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.”
Jack Nicholson quotes (American Actor, Producer and Film Director. b.1937)
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“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”
George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)
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“God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is adapting Himself to our foolishness, our limited capacity”
Christina of Sweden quotes (Swedish Queen of Sweden (1632-54), 1626-1689)
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