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Super liquid proportion contrast; thanks!

I wanted a love as deep as the 

                                      ocean

                                                  but all you gave me was a drop of 

                                                                                                   rain.

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Can you juggle one ball?

#business strategy

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Analogies and the secret to success and happiness. Thanks Seth!

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If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Malcolm Gladwell (h/t Cameron Morrissey)

Duct tape squad??!  Front and center!

#metaphor #insight #duct tape #think #box

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Can we still slide down the banister?

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Where’s Vince L. when you need him?  Nice work George Takei!

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Goin’ with the flow! (Stay away from low-flow, or other flow restrictors!)

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Don’t take a step backward!

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Mirror on the wall (driveway, hallway, runway, highway, way . . .) who knows who I am at all?

#metaphor #insight #reflection

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Super visual metaphor! Now where’s that Boston sharpener, or DTrump for that matter?

#metaphor #insight #visualmetaphor

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Wings, wings, wings; has anyone alerted Sir Paul?

#metaphor #insight

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the sycamore of loneliness they call it daydreams while the ax is still afraid of being alone

Frank Stanford, the opening lines to “nobody is going to touch me,” What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press, 2015)

Most have no ax to grind with that!

#metaphor #Insight

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Whew!  Glad Seth has seen the light.

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Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?

Dennis and Wendy Mannering  (via goodideaexchange)

Only if the CDC is busy working on a vaccine.

#metaphor #insight #meaning

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Ah, at times the best comparisons are implied!

#metaphor #insight #meaning

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Our candidates are running for the nomination of the Republican Party. They’re trying out for our team. No one is forcing them to wear our jersey. We expect our candidates to support our party and our eventual nominee.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus

Read more here

(via politico)

Remind us, when’s the trading deadline?

#metaphor #insight #meaning

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Ah, the short-arm ploy.

#metaphor #meaning #insight