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- OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in… — Ambrose Bierce
- The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach
- The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. — Ferdinand de Saussure
- In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and… — Roman Jakobson
- All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. -- It will change --everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the… — Carlos Barrios
- What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me… — Patricia Gaffney
- Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving… — Carl Zimmer
- It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence. — Gaelen Foley
- I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end.… — Martha Plimpton
- We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s… — Herbert Muschamp
- Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker