"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
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"I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more."
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"In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force."
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"She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble."
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"The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand."
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"When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope."
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"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime."
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"Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself."
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"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
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"The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet."
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"...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state."
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"The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression."
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"I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate."
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"I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over."
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"It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions."
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"Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression."
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"Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)"
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"I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person."
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"It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression."
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"Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way."
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