#signifies

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. ↗

— Michael Ende

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They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

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