Represent Quotes

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The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship. — Edward Abbey
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words… — Theodore Dreiser
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. — Anton Chekhov
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own. — Banksy
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods… — Bertolt Brecht
Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's… — Emma Goldman
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us,… — Marcel Proust
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. — Jostein Gaarder
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or… — Harold Bloom
Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and… — James A. Owen
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer… — C. Terry Warner
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive. — Margaret Atwood
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what… — Elizabeth Gilbert
By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is… — Chuck Klosterman
You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I… — Brandon Sanderson
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I… — John Connolly

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