D. T. Suzuki Quotes
Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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I didn't understand my loneliness until I moved to Tokyo. I moved at 14. I came alone, without Mommy. She came later.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.
