1. "You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy."
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Jay McInerney, Bright Lights
2. "Art is not a mobocracy. It’s a republic."
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Richard Powers, Orfeo
3. "A king had to die so a republic could live."
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Jay Winik, The Great Upheaval
4. "a Phrygian bonnet (a well-known symbol of the Republic)"
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Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
5. "I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy."
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Quote by Sam Lipsyte
6. "An armed man is a little republic unto himself"
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Dan Baum, Gun Guys: A Road Trip
7. "The Republic cured me of the Republic."
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Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War
8. "Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with a man you loathe."
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Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
9. "To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success."
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Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
10. "British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas,"
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John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth