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• The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

  Henry Adams

  Habit, Strikes, Remains

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.89, Booklassic

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• Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Politician, Boundaries, Welsh

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• The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

  Amit Ray

  Stars, Moon, Meditation

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• Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Pleasure, Careless

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• Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Art, Men, Immortal

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• Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

  Theophile Gautier

  Cat, Feet, Faces

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• When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

  Patti Scialfa

  Music, Song, Writing

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• The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

  Jeffrey Tate

  Music, Perfect, Behavior

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Children, Parent, Baptism

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• Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Animal, People

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.346, Vintage

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• If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

  Andre Kertesz

  Beautiful, Photography, Writing

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• With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Vivid, Inevitable

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• It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Light, Events

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• The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

  Aristotle

  Excellence, Lows, Clear

  Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.58, University of Michigan Press

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• For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn't photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.

  Richard Avedon

  Children, Wine, Night

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• The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression.

  Margaret Sanger

  Community, Progress, Elements

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.345, Inkling Books

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• Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

  Abraham Maslow

  Communication, Joy, Language

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• In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s love. The love of God is essentially a thought experience. In the Eastern religions and in mysticism, the love of God is an intense feeling experience of oneness, inseparably linked with the expression of this love in every act of living.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Oneness, Justice

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

  Jacques Barzun

  Running, Mind, Intention

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• Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

  Jacques Barzun

  Character, Robots, Use

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• Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

  Jacques Barzun

  Looks, Fancy, Term

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• The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred it replaces old prejudices with new one. It declares certain topics off-limits, certain expressions off-limits, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  George H. W. Bush

  Land, Racism, Hatred

  Remarks at the University of Michigan Commencement Ceremony in Ann Arbor, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 4, 1991.

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• I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Love, Beautiful, Stars

  Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.189, Stanford University Press

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• The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Stupid, Thinking

  Doris Humphrey (1959). “The art of making dances”

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