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I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

Jerry Uelsmann

Thinking, Mind, Photographer

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People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

Al Sharpton

Thinking, Cities, Two

Source: www.foxnews.com

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From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.

Nancy Mairs

Class, Two, Different

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The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

David Edward Kirk

Kings, Theatre, Riding

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Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Andrew Pyper

Dark, Desire, Needs

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I take it that computational processes are both symbolic and formal. They are symbolic because they are defined over representations, and they are formal because they apply to representations, in virtue of (roughly) the syntax of the representations.

Jerry Fodor

Syntax, Virtue, Process

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As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

R. C. Sproul

Baby, Pain, Joy

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After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.

Hugh Hefner

War, College, Illinois

"Interview With Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.

Manly Hall

Christian, Religious, Art

Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.123, Penguin

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The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Volkmar Sigusch

Fun, Unbearable, Spheres

Source: www.spiegel.de

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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Rene Magritte

Symbolic Meaning, People, Looks

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There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

Cornel West

Spiritual, Political, Flying

Source: www.pbs.org

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As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

Clarence John Laughlin

Use, Cameras, Literal

Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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[My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

Matthew Zapruder

Thinking, Quality, Ordinary

Source: therumpus.net

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Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one.

Matthew Zapruder

Different, Bears, Kind

Source: therumpus.net

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Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Kenneth Burke

Mean, Essentials, Use

Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

David O. Selznick

Hollywood, Rooms, Facade

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

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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 body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Girl, Kings, Men

Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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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 discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

Carol J. Adams

Distance, Reality, Animal

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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 the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

Firsts, Bears, Egyptian

Alvin Boyd Kuhn (2013). “The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

Max Luthi

Fairytale, Fairy Tale, Realistic

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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 European countries.

Antonio Tabucchi

Country, Mean, Expression

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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, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.

Wendy Doniger

Spring, Past, Blood

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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 are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

Martha Smith

Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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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 table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. ... The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

Arthur Eddington

Drama, Shadow, Ink

"The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Introduction), 1928.

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