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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.”

“Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.”

Firsts Actors Language Streets Expression Dancer Performers Mime Street Performers

Author:Denis Lavant

“The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.”

Men Firsts Humans Ends Character Individual Human Beings Acceptance Expression Capacity Western Accepted Civil Rights Realization Justified Premises Freedom Of Expression

Author:Thomas I. Emerson

“A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."”

Mind Firsts Persons Spirit Turns Voice Answers Steps Humility Expression Keys Honor Forgiving Gentle Relax Bitterness First Steps Facial Facial Expression

Author:Gary Smalley

“In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.”

Should Firsts Used Emotion Expression Merit Consideration Originality

Author:Fujiwara no Teika

“You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.”

Firsts Natural Expression Models Relax

Author:Norman Rockwell

“Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.”

Firsts Expression First Time Touched Virgins

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.”

Firsts Art Dream Moral Effects Expression Products Concerned Manifestation Unconscious Repression Orderly Morbid Jung Religion And Art

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.”

Firsts States Values Term Written Particular Expression Morality Function Absolutes Justify Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Protective Propriety

Author:William O. Douglas

“Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.”

Firsts Mother Common Practice Expression Solutions Sight Metaphor Aids Wit Features Speakers Respectable Jam Halt Confronting Expediency Homely Mother Wit

Author:Laura Riding

“The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.”

Thinking Men World Firsts Whole Use Earth Desire Found Virtue Democracy Modern Expression Authority Resources Ideals Aim Pursuit Modern World Turning Points Nature Of Man

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.”

Firsts Social Term Expression Development Solutions Thirds Property Communism Reverse Social Development Thesis Synthesis Antithesis

Book:Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

Source: Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology

“Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.”

Firsts Humans Class Happened Expression Ocean Wave Working Class Indiana Gary

Author:Cornel West

“In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.”

“Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.”

Firsts Important Ideas Century College Expression Duty Protect Censorship Speakers Free Expression Newsworthy

Author:Greg Lukianoff

“To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.”

Source: Essays and Reviews

“As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.”

Firsts Might Energy Expression Demand Tests Opposites Unity Variety Capability Repose Implied Ignoble

Author:John Ruskin

“Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.”

Way Firsts Persons Joy Fun Laughing Tears Expression Idleness Old Ways

Author:Margaret Oliphant

“I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.”

Ifs Feels Should Firsts Culture Music Too Much Heard Expression Fine Depends Hero Singing Sorry Musical Showers Curtains Shower Curtains Musical Expression

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“... the precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented. ... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.”

Source: Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard

“Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Firsts Consciousness Violence Expression Communication Mets Increase Tragic Suicidal Decrease Nonviolent Communication Suggesting Evaluation Likelihood Unmet Needs

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.”

Firsts Values Song Pleasure Expression Listening Music Is Personal Expression

Author:Charles Duhigg

“Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.”

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools; however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into religion-free zones.”

Firsts School Christian Parent Religious Teacher Expression Type Officials Zone Amendments Forbidden Public School First Amendment Inappropriate

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this is a false issue, for the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.”

Firsts Persons Has Beens Self Home Age Law Common Issues Expression Defense Nonviolence Self Defense Common Law Disenchantment

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“We are all individualized expressions of God, of oneness. But we do have personality differences. Everyone who has had more than one child knows that they come in with personalities. The moment they come in - some come in screaming, some sleep through that first night and stay peaceful the rest of their lives - you see the differences.”

Knows Firsts Children Moments Night Differences Sleep Expression Personality Peaceful Oneness

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When we're born on this planet, we're taught to believe that what we see is real. But as we grow in understanding, we recognize first that we've been hypnotized by that reaching, and second that it's within our power to de-hypnotize ourselves. And as we do that, the illusion appears to change, to come in harmony with what we most value. If we most value love, we will begin to see more and more love and joy and adventure-creative expressions of life shimmering everywhere around us.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Real Joy Values Grows Understanding Born Creative Taught Planets Adventure Expression Illusion Harmony Reaching Creative Expression

Author:Richard Bach

“Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'”

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Author:Trey Anastasio

“I don't look at people's expressions, because I still get nervous when I play, especially when I first put the harp up there. I just try to tune - it takes me a half-hour to tune, and I get nervous if I look at anybody when I do it.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Stills Play Hours Half Expression Nervous Tunes Take Me Half Hours Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Bad User on Device is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, including media that cannot exist physically. It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.”

Firsts Media Expression Degrees Tools Including Details Mediums Devices Users Representation Simulate

Author:Alan Kay

“Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.”

“Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.”

Firsts May Expression Doers

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.”

Firsts Faces Realizing Imagination Figures Expression Circumstances Degrees Hundred Perfection Sight Meetings Casts Love At First Sight

Book:New writings by Willam Hazlitt

Source: New writings by Willam Hazlitt

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

“There's an expression in life: "You can only make one first impression." And that first impression has to be spectacular. So, I wait, and let people see it when it's ready to go. It's not a set rule, but I think it's the better way of working. People will agree with you because of your track record, but you want people to like it because it's good, not because you found it.”

People Thinking Way Want Firsts Found Waiting Records Ready Expression Agree Track Impression Spectacular Better Ways First Impression Track Record

Author:Simon Cowell

“I try to express with the camera what the story is, to get to the heart of the story with picture. In battle I look at things first in terms of people, second in terms of strategies or casualties... To tell a story, you don't photograph one hundred dead civilians to prove there were one hundred dead civilians. You photograph one dead civilian with an expression on his face that says, This is what it's like if you're a dead civilian in Vietnam.”

People Ifs Trying Firsts Looks Heart Stories Faces Term Expression Battle Prove Hundred Cameras Strategy Photograph Vietnam Civilians Casualties

Author:Horst Faas

“Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.”

World Firsts Art Self Artist Expression Documentaries Self Expression

Book:Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

Source: Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996

“All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.”

Want Years Firsts Art Ideas Earth Can Do Pay Wonder Painting Expression Gratitude Art Is Productions Seeking Makers Epiphany Framed Dens Souvenirs Expressions Of Love

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”

Firsts Country Government Form Fall Doubt Expression Industry Instance No Doubt Socialist Discontent Fall Back Conducting Gestapo Socialist Government

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.”

Firsts Language Expression Photography Artistic Foreign Language Artistic Expression

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Play Character Feelings Running Able Certain Acting Emotion Expression First Time Running Away Pirate Good Way Freedom Of Expression Ninja

Author:Adam Beach

“A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.”

World Feels Writing Years Firsts Real Stories Reality Might Happened Subjects Expression Trump Internet Election Real World Historian Prophetic Virtual Reality

Author:Zadie Smith

“Recognition of the Supreme Being was the first - the most basic - expression of Americanism.”

Firsts Expression Supreme Recognition Supreme Being Americanism

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.”

Firsts Students Expression

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?”

Firsts Form Company Expression Magazines These Days Amendments Protected Perfume First Amendment Advertisements Advertising Agencies

Author:Calvin Trillin

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”

People Thinking Should Firsts Government Freedom Liberty Objects Expression Protect Foundation 4th Of July Freedom And Liberty Freedom Of Thought Freedom Liberty Free Expression Legitimate Government Writing Essays

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.”

Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes