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“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.”

Causes Emotion Trouble Expression Precise Cliche

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.”

Men Art Hands Bigs Force Causes Pleasure Expression Materials Truth Of Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.”

Looks Enough Feelings Happens Belief Causes Hurt Grief Food Willing Expression Conflict Direct Shame Our Relationship Stance

Author:Geneen Roth

“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.”

Mind Use Causes Effects Objects Expression Ordinary Paint Worthy Noble Phases Sublime

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”

“Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.”

Men Causes He Man Expression Weakness Argument Passionate Assertion Vehement

Author:William Chillingworth

“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.”

Way Doe Ideas Wish Causes Liberty Willing Expression Indifference Free Will Faculty Void Wish You Unworthy Chimera Scholastics

Author:Voltaire

“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!”

Ifs Thinking May Reality Causes Expression Scorn Zeal Discredit

Book:The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil

“The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.”

Causes Violence Expression Hatred Instinct Ancient Versus Tribalism

Author:Edward'O

“Paste Magazine really embodies all that's left of a true independent thought and expression in music journalism in the states right now. Please support the cause and lift them up to keep them moving forward.”

States Moving Left Causes Support Expression Please Right Now Independent Moving Forward Magazines Journalism Lifts Independent Thought

Author:Shawn Mullins

“...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.”

Ifs Enough Suffering Causes Views Feet Expression Photography Enlightenment Photographer Photograph Legs Stuck Artistic Hills Pounds Drag Listeners Equipment Whining Artistic Expression Tripods

Author:Bill Jay

“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.”

Knows Way Trying Kind Mean Stills Important Real Matter Play Felt Causes Deals Records Rocks Expression Scene Inspired Radio Primaries Liberation Punk Gigs Stadiums Punk Rock Radio Plays

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.”

Form Values Social Causes Expression Bases Profit Meaningful Core Brands Consumers Marketplace Core Values Non Profit Social Business

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.”

People Knows Causes Brain Expression Individuality Conception Chemicals Genes Soup Womb Modification Fluctuation Wiring Haphazard

Author:Steven Pinker

“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