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He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered,… — Emily Bronte
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that… — Bell Hooks
A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning… — George Carlin
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all… — Hermann Hesse
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a… — Richard Dawkins
Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life… — Rachel Naomi Remen
the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent… — Greg Mortenson
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so… — Joseph Campbell
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is… — Anne Bronte
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. — James A. Baldwin
He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was… — Hans Christian Andersen
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino
Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,… — Frederick Douglass
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our… — Terence McKenna
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never… — David Levithan
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… — James A. Michener
Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might… — Paul Auster
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go. — Arthur Conan Doyle
In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For… — Patrick Rothfuss

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