"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes."
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"A photographer who wants to see....must recognize the value of the familiar. Your ability to see is not increased by the distance you put between yourself and your home. If you do not see what is all around you every day, what will you see when you go to Tangiers?....Good seeing doesn't ensure good photographs, but good photographic expression is impossible without it."
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"Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos."
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"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. Intelligence is like underwear, everyone has it, but you don't have to show it off. The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
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"Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment."
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"The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being."
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"I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health."
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"The idol is the expression of religion."
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"I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself."
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"Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him."
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"The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality."
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"Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable."
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"So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves."
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"If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!"
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"Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator."
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"The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions."
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"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions."
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"Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image."
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"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
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"Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually has the last word because it is quicker to see through self-deception than the mind. We may ignore or deride the messages of the body, but its rebellion demands to be heeded because its language is the authentic expression of our true selves and of the strength of our vitality."
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