“ I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you. ”
- Frida Kahlo- Copy
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“ Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language. ”
- John Edward- Copy
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“ Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
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“ Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. ”
- Norman Thomas- Copy
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“ Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ watching television at the expense of reading discourages active thinking; diminishes the imagination; inhibits the ability to think abstractly and perform complex symbolic transformations; damages the ability to concentrate; and can become addictive by causing brain changes analogous to drug-induced states. ”
- John Chaffee- Copy
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“ Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams. ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
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“ It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan… ”
- Gary North- Copy
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“ I went many years without even associating Nagasaki with the atomic bomb. Then in the 1980s, when there was a new concern about CND and so on, Nagasaki took on this symbolic value. I felt my Nagasaki had been appropriated. It was suddenly this burning city of ashes… ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense… symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. ”
- Richard Avedon- Copy
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“ We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. ”
- Alan W. Watts- Copy
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“ To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing… ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolic devices. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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