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What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung… — Emory Douglas
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist — Anish Kapoor
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. — Nancy Pearcey
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are… — Tracy Chapman
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no… — Mary Douglas
It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. — David O. Selznick
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young said too… — Loren C. Dunn
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… — Carol J. Adams
It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real… — Pearl S. Buck
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate… — James R Newman
There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the… — Henry Louis Gates
The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They… — Dane Rudhyar
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. — Wright Morris
The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic… — Rebecca Solnit
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light… — Reinaldo Arenas
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Unknown Author
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the… — John Zerzan
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the… — Hermann Hesse
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer
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… — Antonio Tabucchi
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,… — Wendy Doniger
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… — Martha Smith
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… — Arthur Eddington

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