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In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.


Alfred Korzybski

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JEAN SASSON Always forgive, for it is symbol of strength and never apologise, for it is a symbol of weakness.
VIKRANT PARSAI Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
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HORST KOEHLER It became a symbol for a noose.
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HUBERT SELBY JR. Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
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HAROLD MITCHELL I'm a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everythi...
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BRONCO MENDENHALL This photo is a symbol and a reminder for our University community.
DAVE BARON Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
CHARLES JENCKS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS She was and is a symbol of pride for her country.
BETH DANIEL The rainbow flag is a symbol of freedom and liberation that we made for ourselves.
GILBERT BAKER For them this is a final straw, the final symbol of Soviet greatness.
STEVE HARRIGAN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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A.A. MILNE The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.
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TEKOA MANNING What I want is not to become a status symbol, but to give beauty at a price.
ELSA PERETTI the symbol of a reinvigorated France.
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TAMMARA WEBBER I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.
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UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
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KIM BASINGER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
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JESSI KIRBY The return of our national symbol is a victory for wildlife, a victory for conservation and a victor...
DOUG INKLEY If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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BJORN G. AMELAN I don't consider myself a sex symbol.
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
VANCE B.. CHAN Rosa Parks was a symbol of fighting for civil rights. She personified simple eloquence.
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DAN BROWN Ce soartă va avea condiția omenească dacă marile mistere ale vieții vor fi în sfârșit elucid...
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DAN BROWN A trăi în lume fără a deveni conștient de sensul ei este ca și când ai rătăci într-o mare ...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON The case of Mr Habre constitutes a symbol of impunity in Africa.
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STARHAWK When a symbol unmoors itself from what it symbolizes, it loses meaning. It becomes ineffective
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BARRY FERGUSON It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,
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HUEY NEWTON There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I...
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NAOMI WOLF It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.
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DON MARTI It's more symbol than substance.
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ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
ALFRED AUSTIN The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...
ALFRED AUSTIN I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...
ALFRED NOBEL I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course...
ALFRED MOLINA