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

— William Thomas Green Morton

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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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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror. ↗

— James Wolcott

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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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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. ↗

— Albert Camus

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