James Geary Quotes

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

James Geary

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Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.

Meir Soloveichik

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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Max Lerner

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Before taking up law, I studied medicine for six months and then tried my hand at fashion designing for another six months. I wanted to find something that excited me. Finally, it was law that captured my interest.

Mawra Hocane

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The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continuing to have an adversarial relationship with that network is a mistake.

Jeff Zucker

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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

John Shelby Spong

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I tell people all the time, men don't talk to me. Even before I was a household name or whatever, when I went to clubs, people were scared to come to me because of the way I looked.

Stefflon Don

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I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven's outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that's been handed down to these teenagers over the years.

Robert Englund

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If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.

Julia Gillard

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I become so sentimental on planes: I could be watching 'Bridesmaids' and start crying.

Julia Stiles

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I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my average would drop.

Asdrubal Cabrera

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The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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