#symbols

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock. ↗

— William H. Gass

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If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. ↗

— Mark Rothko

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The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. ↗

— Bill Shuster

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Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. ↗

— Margot Asquith

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My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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