Signify Quotes

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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all… — Seneca the Younger
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not… — Thomas Jefferson
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause. — Adam Clarke
In mathematics, if a pattern occurs, we can go on to ask, Why does it occur? What does it signify? And we can find answers… — W. W. Sawyer
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the… — Florence Nightingale
Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it… — Seneca the Younger
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify… — Herbert Marcuse
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that… — Emile M. Cioran
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of… — E. Cobham Brewer
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are… — Thomas Hobbes
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? â€“ A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder? — Georges Bataille
Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs… — Russell Kirk
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or… — Ulysses S. Grant
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else. — Samuel Rogers
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely. — Vincent Van Gogh
Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in… — John Dalton
Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing? — Orhan Pamuk
Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier?… — Haile Selassie

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