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"Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either." »Gerald Barzan
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"Taxation without representation is tyranny." »James Otis
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"“Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy.”" »John Rocco Savalli
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"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it." »Paul Klee
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"The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." »Desmond Morris
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"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller
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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague." »Bill Cosby
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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
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"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts." »Eugene H. Spafford
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"We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique." »John Dewey
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"You've got your phenomenon on one hand. concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable." »Robin Green
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"Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." »Dr. Viktor E Frankl
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"If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation." »Thomas Mincher
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"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money." »Arthur Schopenhauer
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"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics." »Gregory Benford - Timescape
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