“ It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
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“ Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. ”
- Pope John Paul II- Copy
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“ One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. ”
- Ludwig Feuerbach- Copy
- 195
“ The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified. ”
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett- Copy
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“ Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ”
- Michael Ende- Copy
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“ I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country except your own. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
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“ Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Life is a tale told by an idiot — full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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“ A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper — a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it… ”
- Elie Weisel- Copy
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“ Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction. ”
- Claude Levi Strauss- Copy
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“ Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
- 242
“ Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
- 911
“ Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family — a domestic church. ”
- John Paul II- Copy
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“ The Sacrament of the Eucharist is, of course, one step away from the Incarnation itself, where the thing signified were absolutely one. Symbol and sign and metaphor strain towards this union; Sacrament presents it, but the Incarnation is that perfect union… ”
- Thomas Howard- Copy
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“ A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness. ”
- Seneca- Copy
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“ T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone signified Tallegal, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, "tanglefoot… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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