Tokens Quotes - Page 8

• Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds;the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Intelligent, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.191

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• Well, we are Americans. I've always believed that you work with where you are - I am a Mormon woman who was raised on the edge of the Great Salt Lake in the American West in the United States of America. But, by the same token, much of my life has been spent resisting traditional forms of democracy, resisting traditional forms of orthodoxy, be it the United States government or the Mormon Church.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Lakes, Government, American West

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, People, Slave

  Teresa of Avila (2013). “The Interior Castle”, p.269, Lulu.com

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• We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

  Dat Phan

  Artist, Roles, Want

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself - separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives - a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end. In this respect it is a melancholy occupation.

  John Huston

  Unique, World, Occupation

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• So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Lovers, Wonder, Myth

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• Regulatory fiat cannot create a market at a technologically interdependent interface. And by the same token, regulation and so-called monopoly power rarely prevail at modular interfaces between stages of value-added technology.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Monopoly Power, Regulation

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• In the beginning, I was always playing some kind of gangbanger and the token Mexican dude who didn't have a lot of lines but was in the entire movie. At the same time, everyone gets typecast, and I decided that if I was going to play a stereotypical role, I was going to play it like a three-dimensional character.

  Michael Pena

  Character, Play, Mexican

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Don't be overwhelmed by a man's fancy car, fancy house or fancy clothes. It's really the person inside the care, house and clothes that matters. By the same token, don't be underwhelmed by a less-than-fancy car, house or clohtes. Women can earn the car and house themselves, and you can always buy your man nice clothes, too.

  Sumiko Tan

  Love, Dream, Nice

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• The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world. For one thing, being Western puts you outside the limits. A token female doesn't hurt - there's only one.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Hurt, Friendly, Limits

  Source: fpmt.org

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• We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Adventure, Boys, Two

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I'm not singing the virtues of corporations simply 'cause they exist. But by the same token I'm not gonna be like your average liberal and condemn them just because they exist.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Average, Singing, Corporations

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Not a state within a state, but the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is, is saying that the black man, since the white man, has found it impossible to bring about integration, other than toke on a ta - other than on a token basis, and which proves that the, the two of us, the ex-slave and the master, can't live in the same house as equals.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Two, White

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• I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• [John Adams] letters courting Abigail Smith are especially priceless. In one of 1764 he addresses her as "Miss Adorable" and says that "By the same Token that the Bearer hereof satt up with you last night I hereby order you to give him, as many Kisses, and as many Hours of your Company after 9 O'Clock as he shall please to Demand and charge them to my Account."

  Gordon S. Wood

  Kissing, Night, Order

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Friendship, Success, Real

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• The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Jobs, Dad, Phones

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• Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Would Be, World

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Between past and future: eight exercises in political thought”, Viking Adult

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• Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Fall, Men, Levels

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• The weary sun hath made a golden set
  And by the bright tract of his fiery car
  Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

  William Shakespeare

  Twilight, Giving, Car

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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