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“The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”

“The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.”

Way Looks Helping Attitude Achieve Expression Relation Living Things Service Culture Rapport

Author:J. Boone

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“Language always preserves a play or figure/ground relation between experience, and perception and its replay in expression.”

Play Language Figures Expression Perception Relation Preserves Replay

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.”

Men Art Facts Universe Answers Expression Messages Art Is Relation Unspoken Inarticulate

Book:Renaissance fancies & studies

Source: Renaissance fancies & studies

“Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.”

Power Expression Relation Execution Standpoint

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”

Source: Dynamics of Faith

“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man's power of selection. But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Used Order Term Natural Principles Expression Survival Mark Relation Accurate Selection Variation Convenient Natural Selection Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Charles Darwin

“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.”

World Want Spirit Poetry Speak Silence Principles Creativity Knowing Poet Expression Relation Longing Busy Internals Poetic Mystical Bent Fruition Emanate Enigmatic Mystical Experiences

Author:Jacques Maritain

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond the reach of law. Government may not interfere with organized or individual expressions of belief or disbelief. Propagation of belief - or even of disbelief - in the supernatural is protected, whether in church or chapel, mosque or synagogue, tabernacle or meeting-house.”

“S&M is just a set of practices that get classified as a single category, when more accurately they are a part of much larger set of behaviors: expressions of love, and self, and play, and even art. There is no hard line between "vanilla" sex and S&M sex, or any other kind of relation between people.”

People Kind Art Self Hard Play Sex Lines Practice Expression Behavior Relation Categories Vanilla Expressions Of Love

Author:Melissa Febos

“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.”

Funny Technology Expression Machines Relation Piano Sarcastic Annoying Sister Brother Sister

Book:The annotated Oscar Wilde

Source: The annotated Oscar Wilde

“S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory, can happen between people of any gender. There is obviously something titillating about these relationships, but it isn't the sexual components that makes them ugly, they're uglier elsewhere. Nothing sexual is depraved. Only cruelty is depraved, and that's another matter.”

People Matter Happens Expression Relation Ugly Gender Cruelty Kitchen Factories Elsewhere Bedroom Components Submissive Depraved

Book:The Women's Room

Source: The Women's Room