"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression."
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"The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith."
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"Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life."
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"Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit ."
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"I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas."
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"Between thought and expression lies a lifetime."
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"Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature."
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"Joy is the highest expression of love."
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"Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction."
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"I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him"
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"Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression."
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"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
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"Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible."
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"I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression."
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"There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right."
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"The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship."
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"Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression."
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"Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God."
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"I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression."
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