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«Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.»
«If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.»
«Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.»
Author: Pamela Anderson
(Actress, Model)
| Keywords:
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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.»
Author: Richard Avedon
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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.»
«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.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
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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. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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«The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
bell, bell ringing, implies, interference, pointless, ringing, symbolic, The Quiet
«Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.»
Author: Sean O'Casey
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
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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.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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