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“Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive.”

Association Traits Representing Hybrid Latent Dominating

Author:Gregor Mendel

“A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.”

“The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.”

Problem Given Decision Tree Solutions Representing Deliberation

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.”

Kind Ideas Different Reality Spiritual Law Evil Standards Standing Philosopher Crowds Connected Doctrine Versions Prophet Good And Evil Judged Conceit Representing Beyond Good And Evil

Author:Shadia Drury

“One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!”

Men Soul Helping Numbers Lessons Gold Asking Southern Pondering Representing Baptists Mining Southern Baptist Prospecting

Author:Lottie Moon

“There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.”

Art Ends Artist Happenings Selling Dependent Renewal Gallery Representing Dealer Refreshments

Author:Arne Glimcher

“If politicians continue to promote separatism in Australia, they should not continue to hold their seats in this parliament. They are not truly representing all Australians, and I call on the people to throw them out.”

People Ifs Should Politician Seats Australia Parliament Representing

Author:Pauline Hanson

“I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.”

Devil Representing Advocating Devil's Advocate

Author:Charles Olson

“Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.”

Ifs Trying Years Winning Break Gone Organization Committed Quitting Keep Going Marijuana Captains Never Quit Representing Dodgers

Author:Pee Wee Reese

“The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.”

People Persons Issues Europe Exciting Election Participation Representing

Author:Joschka Fischer

“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.”

Thinking World Firsts Important Mother Evil Term Daughter First Time Important Things Our World Representing Necessary Evil

Author:Johnny Depp

“OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.”

World Life Play Song Attitude Speech Opera Gestures Representing Posture Another World

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.”

Firsts Action Form Certain Situation Psychology Possibility Type Perception Constitution Filled Endless Typical Repetition Psychics Representing Archetype Engraved Situations In Life

Author:Carl Jung

“When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”

Children School America Interest Unions Dues Representing Teachers Unions

Author:Albert Shanker

“For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.”

Children Mother Conditions Type Models Daughter Perfection Mistress Representing

Author:Alexandre Dumas

“Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.”

Feels Years Wells Country Whole Moments Lasts Responsibility Player Groups Couple Athlete Our Country Tennis Representing Ambassadors Tennis Player Serbia

Author:Novak Djokovic

“Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.”

Art Existence Defeat Spite Celebration Representing Degrade Celebration Of Life

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are.”

Love Life Made Matter Truth Hope Next Memories Truth Is Meaningful Who We Are Good Times Materialism Rough Reminders Patches Representing Reminding Rough Patches

Book:The Things That Matter

Source: The Things That Matter

“I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.”

Mind Art Memories Awareness Ideals Tradition Perfection Chinese Greek Representing Egyptian Eclectic Classical Art

Author:Agnes Martin

“I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids.”

Kids Remember Son Pride My Son Representing Remember Me

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.”

Thinking World Love Inspirational Two Different Use Choices Fear Views Vision Seeing Determine Inspirational Love Lenses Worldview Representing Power Of Choice Love And Fear

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The fact that we represented freedom, you know. We talked about that in the songs and I think that the parents, like all parents, they want their kids to be in line and not go crazy or do anything too weird (laughs). And for some reason, I think, people identified The Doors as representing just being able to do whatever you wanted to do.”

People Thinking Knows Want Reason Facts Kids Able Wanted Song Parent Lines Laughing Doors Crazy Just Being Representing

Author:Robby Krieger

“"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"”

Ifs Knows Needs Should Firsts Ideas God Christian Religion Asks Religious Prayer Answers Christianity Objects Endless What If Representing Supplies

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.”

“We build buildings based on the false assumption that women go to mosques half as much as they actually do. In fact, the US is the only country in the world where women and men report that they attend the mosque in equal numbers, but our institutions aren't representing this reality.”

Men World Country Facts Reality Numbers Half Building Equal Men And Women Institutions Assumption Reports Representing Mosques False Assumptions

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.”

Firsts Hands America Suffering Community Members Areas Congress Affected Texas Farmers Agriculture Traveled Representing Drought

Author:Michael McCaul

“The country's newest aquarium, opened in November, bills itself as the largest in the world, holding more than 100,000 animals representing 500 species. It is the first in the USA to display whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.”

World Firsts Country Animal Bills Species Fishes Usa Display November Sharks Whales Representing Aquariums

Author:John Grant

“Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'”

Believe Matter Political Process Voice Silence Politician Vote Ears Feminist Refuse Voting Conformity Scream Anarchist Representing Political Freedom

Author:Wendy McElroy

“The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.”

Way Made War Nations Mistake Revolution Favors Allies Tyrants Representing Oppressors French Revolution

Author:J. Christopher Herold

“Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.”

Art Beautiful Art Is Representing

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“I'm really proud to be a woman representing country music.”

Country Proud Representing

Author:Kacey Musgraves

“I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak up for them and no means of representing themselves to a higher authority. Animals are in precisely that position. Unless we are mindful of their interests and speak out loudly on their behalf, abuse and cruelty go unchallenged.”

Mean Speak Interest Animal Position Higher Authority Abuse Victim Injustice Cruelty Vulnerable Powerless Behalf Representing Speaks Out Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

“One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.”

Way States America Color Red Difficulty Blue Just One Divided Senate Representing Electorate Lawmakers Red And Blue

Author:Olympia Snowe

“I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.”

Born Raised Lifestyle Italian Representing Family Friends Born And Raised Jersey Shore Tanning Being Italian Guidos

Author:Pauly D

“The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.”

“Policy is largely set by economic elites and organized groups representing business interests with little concern for public attitudes or public safety, as long as the public remains passive and obedient.”

Littles Long Interest Attitude Groups Economic Policy Concern Safety Remains Organized Elites Passive Obedient Representing Public Safety

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.”

Giving Ideas Government Law One Thing Opposites Function Arise Recognition Pretending Representing Complication

Author:Thurman Arnold

“Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.”

Humans Force Leadership Creative Accounts Patterns Appreciation Manifestation Technological Representing Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:John Grierson

“The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.”

People War Guy Sides Army Vietnam Survived Both Sides My Thoughts Attacking Vietnam War Two Sides Representing

Author:Mort Walker

“I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.”

“I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.”

Has Beens Artist Culture Successful Latin Representing

Author:Julio Iglesias

“Representing Canada as a hockey player is always a tremendous honor, which also comes with a lot of responsibility. Being able to compete and win a gold medal on our home soil made it a once in a lifetime experience. Capping off the best ever performance by not only the Canadian athletes, but also Vancouver and all Canadians, made for an amazing Olympic experience.”

“The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.”

Thinking Stills Government Evil Black President Policy Office Bunch Critique Make You Think Representing American Government Fiasco

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?”

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.”

Firsts May Whole Hands Science Order Pieces Bird Understood Tables Plant Species Glasses Blow Following Corners Cracks Squares Inches Continuing Representing

Author:Leon Croizat

“The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.”

Thinking Stills Government Jobs Law Interest Roles Members Unions Collectives Agreement Parliament Representing

Author:Jacques Delors

“The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.”

People Kind Important Different Country Body House Views Party Democratic All Kinds Broads Democratic Party Representing Mansions Different Views

Author:John Dingell

“In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of the communities that make up Congressional District 21, including Hialeah, Westchester, Doral, Kendall, Miami Lakes, Hialeah Gardens, Medley and Palmetto Bay.”

Years States Community Levels Garden Including Privilege Lakes Public Service Representing Miami Medley

Author:Mario Diaz-Balart

“There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.”

Thinking Men Roles Television Be A Man Representing Being A Woman Cool Things

Author:Jenna Elfman