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Some suggested we put the ubiquitous blue wig on the sphinx, but we decided that was not in good taste and opted not to do it.

Felix Rappaport
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Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

Gustave Le Bon
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A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.

Saul Steinberg
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There were some in the church who felt that putting Joseph Smith's face on the sphinx was a little controversial.

Frank Child
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Here's what we do know: Polls are driving President Bush's court picks. At a low ebb in his presidency, the president has passed over well-known, if controversial, constitutionalists and chosen a sphinx-like presidential pal.

Mark Moller
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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

W. E. B. Du Bois
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For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Austin Osman Spare
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READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in 'dialect' and humor in slang. We know by one's reading His learning and breeding; By what draws his laughter We know his Hereafter. Read nothing, laugh never -- The Sphinx was less clever! Jupiter Muke.

Ambrose Bierce
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