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• From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

  Vince McMahon

  Stronger, Standpoint, Persons

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• If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

  Robert Henri

  May, Painting, Flight

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.158, Basic Books

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• As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Literature, Matter, Facts

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Culture

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• The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a new and fresh approach to lettering in the part of the designer. In these logotypes the combination of letters can be more or less obvious; but only deliberately contrived encounters of elements and confrontations of values can lead beyond the letters to new forms of expression.

  Armin Hofmann

  Encounters, Elements, World

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• What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, Directors, Levels

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Soul, Mind

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-"nothing human is alien to me," the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan "magnanimity."

  Kenny Smith

  Soul, Aliens, Ancient

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• For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.

  David Abram

  Australia, Vitality, Earth

  David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.179, Vintage

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• It would be a serious oversight to limit our understanding of the impact of theology to strictly religious art, and overlook its pervasive role in shaping human understanding and artistic expression thereof within any given culture-regardless of the subject matter at hand.

  John Walford

  Religious, Art, Hands

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• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Country, Animal

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• From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

  Margot Asquith

  War, Men, Snakes

  Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”

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• Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

  Wes Fesler

  Art, Parenting, Perspective

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• Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

  John Wanamaker

  Gratitude, Heart, Giving

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• In some quiet way, the expression and feelings of gratitude have a wonderful cleansing or healing nature. Gratitude brings warmth to the giver and the receiver alike.

  Robert D. Hales

  Gratitude, Healing, Feelings

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• The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

  David A. Bednar

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

  Harold Pinter

  Theatre

  Harold Pinter (1977). “Complete works”

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• There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Science, Understanding, Immature

  Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press

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• Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind Blowing, Infinite, Mind

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• You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Games, Play, Insulting

  George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.10

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• The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Crush, Mercy, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1001, Manonmani Publishers

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• All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greatness, Talking

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.188

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• Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

  Rose Kennedy

  Health, People, Mind

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• Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.

  John Angell James

  Kindness, Heart, Eye

  John Angell James (1828). “Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.95

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