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• In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Country, Mean, Expression

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• Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

  Wendy Doniger

  Spring, Past, Blood

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• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  Carol J. Adams

  Distance, Reality, Animal

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• I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Thinking, Photograph, Obvious

  Jerry Uelsmann, James Enyeart (1980). “Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photographs from 1975-1979”

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• Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions imbedded there. Because of this process, stories can teach, correct errors, lighten the heart and the darkness, provide psychic shelter, assist transformation and heal wounds.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

  Martha Smith

  Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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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

  Feelings, Energy, Information

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Expression, Realization

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• Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Peculiar, Way

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 1949.

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• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Attitude, Epic, Said

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• One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.

  Eric Holder

  Importance, Bin Laden, Organisation

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• In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

  John Lahr

  Drama, Past, Thinking

  John Lahr (2015). “Joy Ride: Lives of the Theatricals”, p.408, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

  Thomas Merton

  Nature, Rain, Moon

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• Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

  Lester Holt

  Mustache, Shaving, Chance

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• The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reality, Men, Numbers

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• The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Destiny, Two, Astrology

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• In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

  Arthur Eddington

  Drama, Shadow, Ink

  "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Introduction), 1928.

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• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.

  Howard Gardner

  Children, Artist, Psychics

  Howard Gardner (1982). “Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity”

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• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ideas, Degrees

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

  James Surowiecki

  Father, Commitment, Investment

  "Through the Roof". www.newyorker.com. May 08, 2006.

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• I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

  Nate Silver

  Doe, Deserve

  "Nate Silver: it's the numbers, stupid" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  Ang Lee

  Men, Symbolic Meaning, Mysterious

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  House, Community, Culture

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

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• When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

  Joel Osteen

  Dad, Believe, Church

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