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• A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

  John Bright

  Years, Cities, Population

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.

  Aaron Sanchez

  Deep Understanding, Inspire, Everyday

  "Aaron Sanchez, Chef Of The Week". Interview with Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2011.

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• My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Mother, Technology, Engineering

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• The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.

  Richard Curtis

  Keys, Agents, Association

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• The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Law, Political

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.140, Ravenio Books

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• The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, People

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• In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Mean, Interesting, Community

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.

  Michele Bachmann

  Obamacare, House, Democracy

  "I Have a Spine Made Out of Titanium". Interview with Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. April 18, 2011.

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• At the end of the day you have to go home to yourself. You have to be with yourself. So make sure what you're doing in business is representative of who you are and that you feel comfortable and that you can stand behind your work.

  Kathryn Finney

  Home, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head of the church. It is in willing submission rather than grudging capitulation that the woman in the church (whether married or single) and the wife in the home find their fulfillment.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Home, Wife, Church

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• July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Independent, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Equal Rights". Speech by Calvin Coolidge, en.wikisource.org. 1920.

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• Government is best which is closest to the people. Yet that belief is betrayed by those State and local officials who engage in denying the right of citizens to vote. Their actions serve
  only to assure that their State governments and local governments shall be remote from the people, least representative of the people's will and least responsive to the people's wishes.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Government, People, Wish

  Special Message to the Congress on the Right To Vote, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 15, 1965.

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• No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign
  capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Sea, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

  Donald Trump

  Leadership, Mexican, Political

  "Univision refuses to air Miss USA pageant after Donald Trump's comments on Mexican immigrants" by Jethro Nededog, www.businessinsider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• The harmony of the nation is promoted and the whole Union is knit together by the sentiments of mutual respect, the habits of social intercourse, and the ties of personal friendship formed between the representatives of its several parts in the performance of their service at this metropolis.

  John Quincy Adams

  Friendship, Ties, Together

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I started on television, and on sitcoms, and loved them, but then they sort of seemed to be going through sort of an ice age, and they started dying off one by one, and I recognized that, and my representatives recognized that, and we said 'Well, let's look at dramas and other things like that.'

  David Alan Basche

  Drama, Ice, Dying

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• I think the scientists have really caught the attention of the people of this country, and of course, they elected representatives by their very clear pronouncement that if we don't do something, we'll be in a lot of trouble.

  Barbara Boxer

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Boxer Tackles Challenge of Preserving Earth for Future Generations". Interview with Jeanne Cummings, www.politico.com. March 19, 2007.

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• Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.

  Emmett Shear

  Class, People, Lucky

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• The duty of a politician for me is to be a representative: a politician is not an expert, experts are experts, hired for their expertise and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Experts, Politician, Duty

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• You must find a way to express your ideas and compel your audience to react through the idea itself, and then figuring out what the best representative of that idea may be, and bringing it to life.

  Kevin Spacey

  Ideas, May, Way

  Source: www.skyword.com

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• Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.

  Hoodie Allen

  Growing Up, Who I Am, Names

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• I went to England to tell jokes, and I wanted to tell my Smokey the Bear joke, but I had to ask the English people if they knew who Smokey the Bear is. But they don't. In England, Smokey the Bear is not the forest-fire-prevention representative. They have Smackie the Frog. It's a lot like a bear, but it's a frog. And that's a better system, I think we should adopt it. Because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool. Never has there been a frog hopping toward me and I thought, "Man, I better play dead!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Mean

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• Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Power, Political

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Government, People

  The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Children, Media, Skills

  Source: techcrunch.com

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