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• It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

  David Bronstein

  Song, Kings, Winning

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

  Ronald Reagan

  Ozone, Community, Achievement

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Media, White, America

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• You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '

  Maya Angelou

  Race, Way, Enough

  "VIDEO: Dr. Maya Angelou Talks Education & More on MSNBC". Interview with Melissa Harris-Perry, www.broadwayworld.com. September 17, 2012.

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• It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Plant, Form

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• The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

  Julius Streicher

  America, United States, Jew

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• In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Law, Requirements

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness”, p.36, Tyndale House

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• Governments are not representative.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government

  "NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2013.

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• It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

  Josiah Warren

  Real, Sound, Corny

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• I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

  Maya Angelou

  Intelligent, Race, Want

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• Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder. And it leaves everyone else rightly suspicious that the system in Washington is rigged against them - that our elected representatives aren't looking out for the interests of most Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Voice, Giving

  "Obama Meets Occupy Wall Street" by Siddhartha Mahanta, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.

  James F. Byrnes

  Government, Views, Hands

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• In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Fate, House, Usa Patriot Act

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• I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

  Kristi Noem

  Leadership, Cutting, Government

  FaceBook post by Kristi Noem from Nov 18, 2010

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• We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement

  Barack Obama

  War, Home, Government

  Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 14, 2011.

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• Josh, my question to you is why you ran against a Republican and spent $100,000, wasted $100,000, that could have been spent on the west side of the state getting us a majority in the House of Representatives, especially since, at least in two of those swing districts we probably could win with that $100,00

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Winning, Swings

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• I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

  John Pilger

  Israel, United States, Use

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

  Hugh Shelton

  Marine, Opportunity, Soldier

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• While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Book, Names

  "A Man Without a Country". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (pp. 102-103), September 15, 2005.

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• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

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• A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Cities, Voice

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.240, Hackett Publishing

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• If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Freedom, Fall, Usa

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• The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Thinking, America

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• Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

  Ezra Pound

  Hands, Law, America

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• . . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Play, Black

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