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«My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm -- as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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abortion, abortions, drug, drug use, free state, intrusion, intrusions, libertarian, libertarians, oppose, pornography, prostitution, realm, representative, sodomy, strongly, suicide, tends, tends to
«I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.»
Author: Robert Morgenthau
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Fate,
Wishes
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appointed, counties, county, politically, representative
«Of course, everybody wants the permanent representative at their functions. You can only split the permanent representative 10 ways. Scheduling is a problem.»
«If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.»
«I am not a gentleman. I am a representative of the Soviet Union here.»
«An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.»
Author: William G. Golding
(Novelist, Poet)
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pomposity, representative, representing, treated
«Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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affair, anew, belonging, end product, existing, expel, expelled, Happy ending, hold in, in-between, indication, indications, insert, inserted, inserting, in a sense, in common, love affair, mode, New World, partners, related, relates, representative, Return to, separates, The Lovers, transformed, worldliness, world affairs
«I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required to make it workable»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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democratic government, representative, representative government, restraint, self-restraint, self government, workable
«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 among men who live by sharking and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respecta»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
bald, bald eagle, bird of, eagle, lousy, moral character, representative, sharking, sharks, turkey
«Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
quantity, representative, warmth
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