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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy. — Yann Martel
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to… — George Carlin
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared… — Richelle Mead
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color… — Diane Ackerman
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the… — Joseph Campbell
In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other.… — Yasunari Kawabata
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell
The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer… — Thomas Merton
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all… — Anais Nin
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see… — Fernando Pessoa
Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my… — Orson Scott Card
We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are… — Pete Wentz
...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give… — Ernest Becker
I don't believe in symbolic gods.I believe that god exists all around us.In the flow of the river,in the rustle of the trees,in the whisper… — Amish Tripathi
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. — Eamon Duffy
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then… — Arthur Blank
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his… — Robert Neelly Bellah
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism… — Whittaker Chambers
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. — Camille Paglia
I think a cyber-terrorism attack is overblown, though the threat exists. I think al Qaeda and other groups are more interested in symbolic terrorism, like… — Kevin Mitnick
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous. — Martin Jacques
It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the… — Ben Shapiro
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a… — Russell Smith
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress. — Thomas E. Mann

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