"The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another."

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Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

George Lakoff

#Essence Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Kind Quotes

“No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.”
“No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1895). “Farrar Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar ...”
“My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.”
“The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work.”
“The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry, Thomas E. Clarke, Anne Lonergan (1991). “Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth”, Mystic, Conn. : Twenty-Third Publications
“It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation, this is crazy.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.”
“Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.”

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