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«This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes»
Author: George Jessel (Actor) | Keywords: colander, holes, likened, plaintiff, reminds, the plaintiff
«The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.»
Author: Nikola Tesla (Engineer, Inventor) | Keywords: blaze, civilisation, feeble, flicker, flickering, flickers, increasing, likened, spark
«The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
Author: Arthur Koestler | Keywords: chain, circuits, diver, emergence, flush, flushed, flushes, guided, immerse, immersed, immersing, insight, intuition, intuitions, likened, links, miraculous, moment of truth, reasoning, short circuit, sudden, surface of, Truth The, vanishes
«Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.»
Author: Mao Tse-Tung | About: Problems | Keywords: investigation, likened, pregnancies, pregnancy, solving
«He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.»
Author: The Talmud | About: Genius | Keywords: branches, exceeds, likened, numerous, roots, sweeps, uproot, uprooted, uprooting, uproots
«Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bridegroom, likened, virgins
«Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: likened, take account
«Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: / But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: likened, parable, sowed, tare, tares, wheat
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