"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

Metaphor, Metaphors

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"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

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"It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone's will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt-as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers."

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"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

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"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

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"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."

"Let your heart be your eye."

"What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance."

"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."

"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."

"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."

"The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not."