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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. ↗

— John M. Ford

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I don't subscribe to any particular orthodoxy, so I don't define it and I don't put it into a definition that other people have to conform to. An expression I always use is, there is a God and it's not me. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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Simplicity is the glory of expression. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose. ↗

— Paul Williams

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There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.' ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

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