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signified

«The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.»
«Every gun that's made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms...is spending the genius of its scientists, the sweat of its laborers,»
«Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.»
«And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Agabus, Caesar, Claudius, signified
«One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.»
«Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.»
«Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.»
«A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.»
«A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.»
«Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

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