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• The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

  John Wesley Powell

  Art, Illustration, Speech

  John Wesley Powell (2008). “Canyons of the Colorado”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Highest

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.192, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the uplifted serpent. That look implied faith. They lived because they believed God's word, and trusted in the means provided for their recover. So to sinner may look to Christ, and live. He receives pardon through faith in the atoning sacrifice. Unlike the inert and lifeless symbol, Christ has power and virtue in Himself to heal the repenting sinner.

  Ellen G. White

  Mean, Sacrifice, Looks

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.500, Simon and Schuster

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• Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic language, a language of cues and puns and symbols and allusions, of cultural references and perceptual inferences that challenge both the intellect and the eye.

  Jessica Helfand

  Eye, Light, Color

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• As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

  Andres Serrano

  Christian, Catholic, Church

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• Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Cutting, Simple, Luxury

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• The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol.

  Benjamin Creme

  Heart, Organization, Numbers

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• Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each.

  Paul Foster Case

  Years, Pyramids, Numbers

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• Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  Beautiful, Flower, Moments

  Sharman Apt Russell (2002). “Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers”, p.2, Basic Books

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• Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

  James Davison Hunter

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.

  Alonzo King

  Essence, Humanity, Injury

  "Alonzo King: Dancing Between the Lines". Interview with Fisher Jack, www.eurweb.com. June 17, 2013.

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• I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

  George Carlin

  Yellow, Flags, Ribbons

  "Napalm & Silly Putty".

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• Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.

  John Armstrong

  Serenity, Buoyancy, Way

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• The flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Challenges, Asana, Gains

  B. K. S. Iyengar (1993). “Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjala : Patañjala Yoga Pradīpikā”, Thorsons Pub

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• When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states.
  This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come.
  That is the country that we are going to be celebrating.
  And those are the people that we are one with.

  Joseph Campbell

  Country, Moon, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.41, Anchor

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• There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Jesus, Moving, Heart

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• For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

  Diane von Furstenberg

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• He whose birth we commemorate this season is more than the symbol of a holiday. He is the Son of God, the Creator of the earth, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the fulfillment of the Law of Moses, the Redeemer of mankind, the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Kings, Holiday, Son

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• We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Curiosity, Mankind, Feels

  Buzz Aldrin, Ken Abraham (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.51, Crown Archetype

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• What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

  Hillary Clinton

  Champion, Guarantees, Vote

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• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Party, Elephants, Two

  "Family Guy". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Heart, Beloved

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.16, Editora Dracaena

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