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• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Law

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• Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

  Henry Ford

  Wisdom, Useless Things, Gold

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• No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Individual, Interpretation

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• Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

  Al Nichol

  Tongue, Speak, Economics

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• People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Dog, Book, Unique

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• Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Differences, Presidential, Peaceful

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.537, Best Books on

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• Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

  Huey Newton

  Brother, Men, White

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Daughter, Sex, Humble

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• A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Use, Existential

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.124, Vintage

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• The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

  Linda Tucker

  Culture, Lions, Kingship

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• I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are. who's more confused, those who think weapons are sexual organs, or those who want to take everyone's sexual organs away?.

  L. Neil Smith

  Confused, Thinking, People

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.120, Macmillan

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• I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

  Howard Dean

  Believe, America, Years

  "Dean: Country needs serious discussion about race". www.cnn.com. November 6, 2003.

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• A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Philosophy, Ideas, Religion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.378

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• I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Self

  "Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional". mentalfloss.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Echoes, Essence

  Carl Gustav Jung (1956). “Symbols of transformation”

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• It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.278, CUP Archive

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• The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land They can tear down a building They can tear down a park They can strike at a symbol But they can't strike the heart.

  Janis Ian

  Heart, Men, Rivers

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• All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Mirrors, Diversity

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.6, First Avenue Editions

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• Things are symbols of themselves.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Aperture, Richard Avedon, Eric Fischl, Allen Ginsberg (1985). “The Human Street: Photographs”, Aperture

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• Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

  Douglas Wilson

  Heart, Hands, Feet

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• Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

  Robin Morgan

  Racism, Perfect, Combination

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

  Thomas Keating

  Letting Go, Prayer, Practice

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• As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

  Carl Jung

  Flower, Plant, Produce

  Carl Gustav Jung (2012). “Man and His Symbols”, p.82, Dell

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• A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sea, Culture

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• It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reality, Light, Evil

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