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«Status symbols are medals you buy yourself.»
Author: Bernhard Wicki
| Keywords:
symbols
«Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.»
Author: Sir Arthur Eddington
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
beyond measure, described, metrical, physicist, significance, stunt, stunted, stunting, symbols, weighed
«The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.»
«Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Poetry
| Keywords:
arranges, delightfully, excite, powerfully, selects, symbols
«Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.»
«Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Language,
Mathematics,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
mathematical, symbols
«The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| Keywords:
biological, convert, reproduction, reproductions, social function, symbols
«Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
articulated, articulating, called, completely, explained, fulfillment, inaudible, language, meanings, moments, occasionally, symbols, unutterable, word meaning
«I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.»
«That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Hate,
Sex
| Keywords:
sex symbol, some other, symbol, symbols
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