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Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light. – Andrew Schneider
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. – Peter Cochrane
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. – Alvin Toffler
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. – Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – G. K. Chesterton
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. – Barbra Streisand
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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