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A proverb is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on COMMON SENSE or experience.

Proverb - Wikipedia

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Over two-third of the board should be eight people...so China Resource thinks this proposal has not been approved, china Resources expresses strong dismay to Vanke announcing an approval of the deal before serious consideration of its board directors' opinions.

China Resources

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7 years ago

The Court expresses no view on the merits of the cases, in particular, the Court does not decide whether petitioners' religious exercise has been substantially burdened, whether the Government has a compelling interest, or whether the current regulations are the least restrictive means of serving that interest.

The Supreme Court

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7 years ago

We cannot agree with such accusations, on the contrary, we were keen that our position be understood, we were talking about a citizen of the Russian Federation. Any country expresses its concerns (in such cases). It would be wrong to look for any hidden agenda.

Dmitry Peskov

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8 years ago

Prime Minister Abe, as the prime minister of Japan, once again expresses his feeling of heartfelt apology and remorse to all those who, as 'comfort women', experienced much suffering and incurred incurable psychological and physical wounds.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida

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8 years ago

While we do block terrorist (e.g. ISIS-related) bots and channels, we will not block anybody who peacefully expresses alternative opinions.

Wednesday Telegram

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8 years ago

He was telling this very lyrical love story and I think we were making much more of a thriller, we were making this very intense movie about the cost of obsession and that it expresses itself in a very different way in what Juan Campanella expressed it.

Billy Ray

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8 years ago

Everyone has found their identity in a really interesting way, we didn't come out as these robots that looked and dressed the same. We had to go through our own shit. At the end of the day, it’s respecting every female artist’s choice in how she expresses herself, because that’s what she wants.

Demi Lovato

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8 years ago

I received this fantastic screenplay...and about 20 minutes into the film it's written that he (Harry) gets up and dances and expresses himself completely through dancing, i've never been asked to do that in a film before so I said, 'Yes, thank you'.

Ralph Fiennes

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8 years ago

A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Debasish Mridha, M.D.

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9 years ago

Honestly, I don't and you don't know what he truly believes. I'm talking about the way that he expresses himself. I can't tell you what's within his heart.

Rudy Giuliani

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9 years ago

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

David Mamet

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9 years ago

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Émile Durkheim

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10 years ago

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

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10 years ago

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

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10 years ago

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan

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10 years ago

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Søren Kierkegaard

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10 years ago

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)

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13 years ago

No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

Robert Cecil Day Lewis

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13 years ago

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

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To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

Carl Jung

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13 years ago

Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)

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13 years ago

A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.

O.G. Sutton

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13 years ago

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

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14 years ago

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