"Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing."
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"Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today."
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"It is raining and you can hear the pattern of the drops. You can hear it with your ears, or you can hear it out of that deep silence. If you hear it with complete silence of the mind, then the beauty of it is such that cannot be put into words or onto canvas, because that beauty is something beyond self-expression ."
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"...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him."
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"Expression is never helped by suppression."
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"You know the expression 'God protects fools and drunks'? I qualify for both."
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"The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country."
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"Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now."
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"If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine."
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"As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity.""
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"All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between."
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"The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low."
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"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself."
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"Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees."
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"Desire is possibility seeking expression."
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"The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression"
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"A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom."
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"Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought."
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