Representing Quotes - Page 11

• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Peacemaker in a Diverse Nation". www.csmonitor.com. October 26, 1994.

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• Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.

  Omar Samra

  Country, Lying, Pride

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• I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hands, America

  "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.

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• The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'

  Mitt Romney

  Teacher, Children, Attitude

  "'Who's Killing Philly Public Schools?': Daniel Denvir on Plan for School Closings, Privatization". www.truth-out.org. May 25, 2012.

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• We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten. In fact, such a system negatively affects both men and women, holding us all back from true integration, collaboration, and union.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.85, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.

  Leon Croizat

  Science, Blow, Squares

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• At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

  Grace Hopper

  Believe, Boss, Steps

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• Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.

  Henry Cavill

  Responsibility, Character, Icons

  "Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe Talk MAN OF STEEL, Making Lois Lane More Active, Getting the Flying Right and Fight Sequences" by Christina Radish, collider.com. June 9, 2013.

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• Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.

  Morgan Neville

  War, Mean, Two

  "'Best Of Enemies': When Televised Verbal Fireworks Were A Novelty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. August 2, 2015.

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• Cyber Command is supposed to be defending our critical infrastructure at home, but they are spending so much time looking at how to attack networks, how to break systems, and how to turn things off. I don't think it adds up as representing a defensive team.

  Edward Snowden

  Team, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greatness, Bridges, People

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• Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

  Richard Summerbell

  Art, Definitions, Journalism

  "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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• All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

  Colin Powell

  Fighting, Political, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Democracy, Spirit, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi (1943). “The Wisdom of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.

  Columba Marmion

  Pride, Evil, Enemy

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• I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The artist should be the person representing their brand because theyre the best person to do so.

  Hoodie Allen

  Artist, Marketing, Promotion

  Source: www.controltheriot.co.uk

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• The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies... I'm not really a lawyer!

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  "Saturday Night Live Weekend Update" with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, snltranscripts.jt.org. April 9, 2005.

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• You can't have a bad time at Disney World. It's not allowed. They have hidden electronic surveillance cameras everywhere, and if they catch you failing to laugh with childlike wonder, they lock you inside a costume representing a beloved Disney character such as Goofy and make you walk about in the Florida heat getting grabbed and leaped on by violently excited children until you have learned your lesson.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Children, Humor

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.56, Ballantine Books

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• He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Painting, Language

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1872). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion, Selected from the Works of John Ruskin”, p.242

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• Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Learning, Men, Giving

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• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Two

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• He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.

  Herman Melville

  Appreciation, Past, Light

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

  Newt Gingrich

  Rip, People, Machines

  The Mark Levin Show, ABC Radio Networks, June 24, 2010.

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• So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.

  Snoop Dogg

  Taken, Men, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 7, 2011.

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• Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Distance, Thinking, People

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