#represent

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. ↗

— Andy Samberg

#general #growing #how #internet #matter

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#ever #languages #reality #representing #same

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off? ↗

— George Saunders

#days #doing #each #evil #find

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#issues #know #major #national #representatives

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#communities #experience #freedom #ideal #immigrant

But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed. ↗

— John Shimkus

#always #before #best #bill #counties

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#death #emmys #grown #how #i

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot. ↗

— Nate Silver

#representative #sample #snapshot #taking #won

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. ↗

— Julian Lincoln Simon

#death #increase #our #population #represents