Representative Quotes
267 quotes by 240 authors
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That customer service representative is crazy, if he think I am going to pay that bill.
— Jon Jones
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The customer service representative hung up on me when I asked to talk to a supervisor.
— Jon Jones
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I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to…
— Warren G. Harding
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The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together…
— John Cornyn
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Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out,…
— Georg Simmel
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The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast,…
— Hermann Broch
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Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and…
— Simon Bolivar
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Painters make paintings, but it takes a representative of the art-world to make a work of art.
— Richard Wollheim
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FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys…
— PZ Myers
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Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror…
— Massad Ayoob
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I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see…
— Joe Biden
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so…
— Todd Akin
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Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal…
— Garet Garrett
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Today, our planet demands a more effective, efficient, transparent and representative United Nations; a UN where all societies of the world have greater participation. The…
— Enrique Pena Nieto
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Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
— Emma Bonino
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the…
— Carrie P Snow
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For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has…
— Joe Girardi
Who Wrote These Representative Quotes
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