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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Money, Loss, Men

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• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Country, Balance, President

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• It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

  Charles Kennedy

  Years, People, Age

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• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Games, Generations, London

  "After Olympic success, now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, inamerica.blogs.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Country, People, Different

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• I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

  Boy George

  Lgbt Community, Kind, Life Is

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• The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Evil

  "Lupe Fiasco supports Barack Obama but says he's not first black president" by Alvin Blanco, www.mtv.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Kids, Pride, Son

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• The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

  George M. Whitesides

  Reading, Simple, Errors

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• Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, College, Creative

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012

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• Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taken, Self, Temptation

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

  Alexis Arguello

  Country, Glasses, People

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• I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Growing Up, Mean

  Babe Ruth's Farewell Speech, www.hark.com.

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• We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Men, Land, Diversity

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• Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

  Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  Success, Truth, Compassion

  Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard

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• It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Two, Differences

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• There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• There were hundreds of them spread across the floor, each telling its own tale of triumph or sadness, each letter representing a phase in her life. She had kept them all.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sadness, Triumph, Phases

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Future

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . . the 'iconization' of the life of Jesus: 'This is a Jesus of hieratic, stereotyped gestures, all representing theological themes. In this way, the life of Jesus is no longer a human life, submerged in history, but a theological life -- an icon.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Religious, Jesus, Icons

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• You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Vegetables, Oil

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.82, Penguin

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• the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Numbers, Perfect, Balance

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• Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

  Aristotle

  Men, Tragedy, Comedy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

  Amy Tan

  Reality, Two, Different

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.189, Penguin

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