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“There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.”

“The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”

Humans Expression Consequence Ultimate Finals Organized Concentration Camps Abandonment Concentration Camp Separateness Dehumanization

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”

“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”

Ifs Doe Said Character Turns Sex Results Behinds Identity Expression Consequence Gender Distinction Constructs Being There Gender Identity Sex And Gender

Author:Judith Butler

“In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.”

Men Eye Law Purpose Strong Results Doubt Wife Expression Consequence No Doubt

Author:William Henry Maule

“The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.”

Shows Would Be Language Sides Expression Pure Consequence Strive Various Creator Adequate

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.”

Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc

“By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.”

Writing Play Character Use Can Do Issues Expression Consequence Definitions Delight Psychological Narrative Characterization Chronology

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.”

Self Causes Self Esteem Expression Achievement Consequence Esteem Accomplishment Productive

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“From a spiritual perspective, freedom from attachment to a particular outcome is the ultimate expression of liberation. We can choose the actions we take, but we cannot control the consequences of our choices.”

Action Spiritual Choices Particular Expression Perspective Consequence Ultimate Liberation Outcomes Attachment Our Choices

Book:The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices

Source: The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices