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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Strong, Government

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• Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Depiction

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Errors, People

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• Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

  Jane Silber

  Important, Needs, Talent

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• Theatre has always been better disposed to colourblind casting than telly or film. Given that most television is contemporary, and it reaches 56 million people, I am disappointed there still isn't more representation.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  People, Theatre, Television

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• Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

  Immanuel Kant

  Beautiful, Art, Doe

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• We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

  Shawn Amos

  Who We Are, Facts, Mere

  "Business Is Nothing But the Blues" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2014.

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• I just believe that marriage is a beautiful representation of God's love for us and that there is such a cherishing that can happen in marriage that is different from any other relationship.

  Rebecca St. James

  Beautiful, Believe, Different

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

  Ernst von Glasersfeld

  Knowledge, Independent, Reality

  "Contextualism in psychological research?: a critical review" by E. John Capaldi, Robert W. Proctor, (p. 10), 1999.

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• We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is that we help the legitimate governments in the region that have representation in the United Nations. We help the Iraqi government on their request through advisers; we help the Syrian government on their request to help with advisers to fight extremists. . . . So it's both lawful and legitimate.

  Mohammad Javad Zarif

  Fighting, Government, Isis

  "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.

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• I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Color, Knowing Everything, Focus

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• I plan to stand up and be counted. And the thing I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna do what we're gonna do right now. I'm going to the people and say, 'Now this is what I'm trying to do.' And I'm going to do this because I believe the people need representation.

  Paul Eggers

  Believe, People, Political

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• And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.

  Plato

  Art, Taken, Play

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• picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Two, Three

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.163, 谷月社

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• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Art, Expression, Sublime

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• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Nature, Play, Levels

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• I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

  Bill Nighy

  Technology, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Country, Eye, Science

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• So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

  Geena Davis

  Country, Thinking, Government

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• In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into representation. The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be re-established. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation . . . The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

  Guy Debord

  Reality, People, Unity

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.30, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Yesterday, People, Administration

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton; compris. his corresp. and his polit. and official writings, excl. of the federalist, civil and military. Ed. by John C. Hamilton”, p.440

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• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

  Simon Hoggart

  Hero, Blue, Whales

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• I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

  Otto Dix

  Beautiful, Obsession, Obsessed

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