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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie
She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that… — Jack Johnson
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head… — Eric Holder
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it… — Steven Johnson
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story… — Tayari Jones
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of… — Johannes Peter Muller
Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling… — Cliff Stearns
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his… — Laura Mulvey
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious — Edward F Edinger
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two… — Charles Kingsley
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come… — Joseph Campbell
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own… — Georges Braque
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal,… — Robert Motherwell
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and… — Ad Reinhardt
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he… — Howard Gardner
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to… — Asger Jorn
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete
Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer… — Jonathan Gottschall
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a… — S I Hayakawa
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. — Malcolm Fraser
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit… — Henry Louis Gates
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with… — Sloane Crosley
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our… — Richard Dawkins
History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus… — Hugh Evans

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