“ Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. ”
- Emma Lazarus- Copy
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“ The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon. ”
- Russell Lynes- Copy
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“ For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. - The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there… ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I hesitate to call myself a sex symbol. Lord help the sex symbol world if I'm one of them. ”
- Clay Aiken- Copy
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“ Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche. ”
- Victoria Billings- Copy
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“ I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol. ”
- Ben Affleck- Copy
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“ If castaway cigar butts once were the floor symbol of the male-dominated convention, the equivalent symbol this year is a litter of women's pumps. ”
- Francis X. Clines- 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
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“ Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much. ”
- Jawaherlal Nehru- Copy
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“ Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy. ”
- Dennis Franz- Copy
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“ In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ”
- John B. S. Haldane- Copy
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“ In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ It is a myth, not a mandate; a fable, not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. ”
- Irwin Edman- Copy
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“ Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. ”
- Thomas J. Peters- Copy
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