(Used as a metaphor.)

(Used as a metaphor.)

They use Mobutu as metaphor.

I want you to think about illusion as a metaphor.

That's the metaphor, the old metaphor.

A Metaphor for Obama

This is not a metaphor.

Stroop tests have been done with metaphor as well.

Their central metaphor is a loom.

And in a way that's a metaphor for life.

So, then I thought a calculator is a metaphor.

There was no metaphor. Was it a database?

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us.

My story is the power of a metaphor.

The metaphor that I like to use is the metaphor of the circular mill.

I'd like to end with a little metaphor here.

So I'd like to conclude with a physical metaphor.

And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor.

And I want to start by giving you some examples of visual illusion as a metaphor for rationality.

There's a metaphor which I love living like a drawing compass.

And so I'm going to use, as the metaphor, this association quantum mechanics, which I really don't understand, but I'm still gonna use it as the process for explaining how it is the metaphor.

To think about culture variation, let's try a different metaphor.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

But sometimes this kind of a metaphor is too simple.

It evokes the container metaphor of communication, in which we conceive of ideas as objects, sentences as containers, and communication as a kind of sending.

The lives of those people had become a metaphor, as well as a reality, of misery and injustice, in which the concept of home was a travesty.

This is the mathematics of metaphor.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

But this is how metaphor misleads.

And it's sort of a metaphor for me for the virtual world.

And, all right, I'm kind of milking the metaphor a little bit.

And I think it's a nice metaphor also for the 21st century.

But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.

So if I had to think of some kind of occupation as a metaphor for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.

This formula works wherever metaphor is present.

Now metaphor is ubiquitous, yet it's hidden.

You know, what's his metaphor for performance?

And this is art. This is metaphor.

The metaphor of Mahishasura Mardhini, of Durga.

So here's the metaphor I'm offering today.

You like that one? As opposed to you could see George Bush, well, what's the metaphor there?

And I'd like to make a metaphor, but I don't have one really.

And the journey, I believe, is a metaphor for all of our journeys.

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