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• Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Stupid, Order, Law

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 1), 1938.

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• Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle it rejects all absolute schemes and concepts. It does not believe in any absolute truth, or in definite final goals for human development, but in an unlimited perfectibility of social arrangements and human conditions which are always straining after higher forms of expression, and to which for this reason one can assign no definite terminus nor set any fixed goal.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Believe, Order, Perfect

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.15, AK Press

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• Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give them a definite shape. Its mental expression is dead dogma; its physical manifestation of life, brute force. This lack of intelligence in its endeavours leaves its imprint likewise on the persons of its representatives, gradually making them mentally inferior and brutal, even though they were originally excellently endowed. Nothing dulls the mind and soul of man as does the eternal monotony of routine, and power is essentially routine.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Law, Giving

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• Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Mean, Passion, People

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• All in all you're just another brick in the wall

  Roger Waters

  Wall, Bricks

  Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

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• Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions, much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.

  Paul Ekman

  People, Dozen, Messages

  Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

  Asger Jorn

  Add, Painting, Reason

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 115), 2002.

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• True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

  Asger Jorn

  Lying, Faithful, Realism

  "Aftermath France, 1945-54 : New Images of Man : An Exhibition" by Germain Viatte, Sarah Wilson, (p. 107), 1982.

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• So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent.

  Isocrates

  Teacher, Race, Names

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• No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

  James Connolly

  Movement, Revolutionary

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.48, Pluto Press

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• Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

  Pearl Cleage

  Believe, Flower, Home

  Pearl Cleage (2009). “Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: A Novel”, p.8, One World

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• I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.

  Donald Knuth

  Definitions, Unix, Roof

  "Digital Typography". Book by Donald Knuth, 1999.

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• Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of mystery and excitement. She's dramatic-almost untouchable.

  Ralph Lauren

  Attitude, Air, Excitement

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• All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. It will be a little difficult to break a bad habit of thought, but it can be done. We can choose how we shall think—in point of fact, we always do choose—and therefore our lives are just the result of the kind of thoughts we have

  Emmet Fox

  Jesus, Destiny, Thinking

  Emmet Fox (2010). “The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• When the mind changes the outer expression must change to correspond. We are transferred by the renewing of our minds.

  Emmet Fox

  Mind

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• In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Anger, Frustration, Emotional

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.

  David Frawley

  Energy, Speech, Spirit

  David Frawley (2010). “Mantra Yoga and the Primal Sound: Secrets of Seed (Bija) Mantras”, p.48, Lotus Press

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• It's all about self-expression; you know, if you feel like a troll then you should look like a troll. It doesn't matter what you look like. I mean, if you have a hunchback just throw a little glitter on it, honey, and go dancing!

  James St. James

  Mean, Self, Dancing

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• The face of the sun is not without expression, but it tells us precious little of what is in its heart.

  Armin Joseph Deutsch

  Stars, Heart, Littles

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• I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Sensual, Trying

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• Free music is in a constant state of surprise and, consequently, presents no surprise at all. So, I'm not really a fan of Free music. Having said that, Jazz is based on individual expression and I'm compelled to respect the Free player's option to express himself as he chooses.

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Player, Fans

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• Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Rain, Writing

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• We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

  Dario Fo

  Italian, Church, Ugly

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• We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Children

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• My Body, My Soul and I.
  
  
  My body is mine, but my body is not me,
  My body is an expression of my soul.
  My soul is mine, but my soul is not me,
  My soul is an expression of me -
  for I am.

  Ian Gardner

  Soul, Body, Spirituality

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