Represents Quotes
689 quotes by 599 authors
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The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world…
— Emma Goldman
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach…
— Walt Disney
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for…
— Dean Koontz
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Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in…
— Martin Buber
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Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely…
— Hermann Hesse
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Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.
— Steven Levitt
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's…
— Hermann Hesse
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They would place their hands together inside the circle so that they could walk in each other's dreams. It forged a bond that could not…
— Libba Bray
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There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of…
— Michael Pollan
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many…
— Aristotle
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Astraeus,' Aven called out. 'God of the four winds and friend to sailors. Say a little prayer when you look at him, so he will…
— James A. Owen
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
— Karl Marx
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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
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In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes…
— Tim O'Brien
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Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate…
— Herbert Marcuse
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She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of…
— Zadie Smith
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Progress does not have to be patented to be worthwhile. Progress can also be measured by our interactions with nature and its preservation. Can we…
— Richard Louv
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The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the…
— Sam Harris
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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything…
— Irving Stone
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