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• Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

  Mary Webb

  Blue, Color, May

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• The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Color, White, Flags

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• Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

  Dan Brown

  Class, Events, Connections

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Da Vinci Code: (Robert Langdon Book 2)”, p.21, Random House

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

  Al Gini

  Order, Luxury, Rights

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• A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
  Inherits every virtue sound,
  As emblems of the sovereign power,
  Like other baubles in the Tower:
  Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,
  And so continues till he dies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Sovereign, Sound

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• Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Flower, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
  Gives and receives all bliss,--
  fullest when most
  Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
  Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
  O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

  Robert Pollok

  Spring, Numbers, Giving

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• The willingness to turn to the Savior, the opportunity of going to sacrament service on a Sunday, and really participating in the ordinance of the sacrament... listening to the prayers, partaking of those sacred emblems. Those are opportunities that really help us to come within the ambit of the Savior's Atonement.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Prayer, Sunday, Opportunity

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

  Deborah Tall

  Powerful, Dwelling, Choices

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.77, Syracuse University Press

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• Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Interesting, Acting, Watches

  Samuel R. Delany (2010). “Dhalgren”, p.358, Hachette UK

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Cutting, Idols, Would Be

  Principles of the Civil Code, pt.1, ch.13, final note. Collected in John Bowring (ed) Works (1838-43), vol.1.

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• A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison. Her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments, her person is angelic, and her conversation heavenly. She is all softness and sweetness, peace, love, wit, and delight. She is every way suitable to the sublimest wish, and the man that has such a one to his portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her, and be thankful.

  Daniel Defoe

  Women, Accomplishment, Being Thankful

  Daniel Defoe (2017). “An Essay Upon Projects”, p.130, Litres

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• The dream on the pillow,
  That flits with the day,
  The leaf of the willow
  A breath wears away;
  The dust on the blossom,
  The spray on the sea;
  Ay,--ask thine own bosom--
  Are emblems of thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dream, Dust, Sea

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

  Milan Kundera

  Hurt, Book, Men

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• Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

  William J. Brennan

  Flags

  "On Flag Burning, Trump Differs With Scalia but Agrees With Clinton" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.

  C. Wright Mills

  Kings, Divine Right, People

  "Character and Social Structure". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1953.

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• The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

  Henry Adams

  Philosophy, Church, Answers

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Resurrection, Lively

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.279, Harvard University Press

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• We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

  John Evelyn

  Flower, Men, Roots

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• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  John Milton

  Men, Rose, Bird

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698-705.

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