Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Play permits the child to resolve in symbolic form unsolved problems of the past and to cope directly or symbolically with present… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians. — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. — Edmund Leach Copy Share Image
“Listen Mr. Namaki, you're a king to me You're a symbol of what we should strive to be In this modern day… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red [].… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation,… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
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