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• The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Artist, Musician, Invisible

  Irma A. Richter (ed.) 'Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' (World's Classics, 1952) p. 198

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• Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Race, Skin Color

  "Gabourey Sidibe is both fan, star when it comes to 'Empire'". The Associated Press Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. September 22, 2015.

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• As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation.

  John C. Lilly

  Lying, Bullshit, Experience

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• The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

  Rene Magritte

  Lying, People, Stuff

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• Many Americans do not realize that we could institute proportional representation for most elections in the U.S. without amending the Constitution. In helping to educate the public about the potential for voting system reform, CVD can play a central role in a pro-democracy movement right here in America!

  John Anderson

  Play, America, Voting

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• Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Words Of Wisdom, Intuition

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• Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

  Henri Matisse

  Two, Balance, Three

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• The anxiety of fate is conquered by the self-affirmation of the individual as an infinitely significant microcosmic representation of the universe .

  Paul Tillich

  Fate, Self, Anxiety

  Paul Tillich (1968). “The Courage To Be”

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• Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

  Tarja Halonen

  Problem, Inequality, Competence

  Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

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• I believe that marriage is a representation of Christ and the church and when Christ and the church are unified, they are the strongest and most attractive to those that don't know Jesus.

  Rebecca St. James

  Jesus, Believe, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I bring quadruple diversity to the Senate: I'm a woman; I'll be the first Asian woman ever to be elected to the U.S. Senate; I am an immigrant; I am a Buddhist. When I said this at one of my gatherings, they said, 'Yes, but are you gay?' and I said, 'Nobody's perfect.'

  Mazie Hirono

  Buddhist, Gay, Government

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• As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspiration, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4265, Delphi Classics

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• The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Wassily Kandinsky, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Armin Zweite, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1992). “Kandinsky: watercolors and drawings”, Prestel Pub

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• Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

  Wright Patman

  Politics, Economy, Members

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• ...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

  Catherine Opie

  Ideas, Mainstream, Happens

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• Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Reality, Order

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• The world is my representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Data, Goal

  "On the Method of Theoretical Physics". The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford, June 10, 1933.

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• Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

  Jay Roach

  Sacrifice, Choices, Battle

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .

  William Rawle

  Government, People, Political

  William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.296

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• We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

  Tom Coburn

  Political, Term Limits, Politics

  Senator Tom Coburn, John Hart (2013). “Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders”, p.218, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

  Clarence Darrow

  Honesty, Lying, Law

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the past" and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

  Johan Huizinga

  Truth, Past, People

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• The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

  Ben Shahn

  Eye, Vision, Visuals

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• A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

  William Gibson

  Light, Data, Cities

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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