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  • He is who and what he is because his frame is conservative: his base hungers for his continual re-expression of their values, and his public self is constructed as such by the frame.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • It means that the individual organism is a recapitulation or re-expression, of the species in its development.

    An Oxymoron: "Marxist Communism" 2009

  • Please help me with the next “RE-EXPRESSION” Harriet Meirs was she a re-expression?

    Think Progress » WashPost’s VanDeHei: 2005

  • This was the beginning of what Lessig would like us to think of as “Walt Disney Creativity,” which we should celebrate: the appropriate and re-expression of popular culture.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Larry Lessig at SXSW 2003

  • On looking back over the work, I can only feel a kind of regret for the enormous amount of physical reasoning and mathematically re-expression which ends by merely re-expressing what was previously known, although in a form which is much more efficient for the calculation of specific problems.

    Richard P. Feynman - Nobel Lecture 1972

  • When we come to study the particular arts, we shall find this phenomenon of re-expression through the medium everywhere.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • Mysticism at that time flourished in the monasteries, and the national spirit -- the customs, habits, joys, and emotions of the people -- had not yet found re-expression in script.

    Armenian Literature Anonymous

  • Individuality is so weak and pliable a thing in most of us that it is very easily checked -- it requires watchfulness and care, and not to be overborne, for the smallest individual thought of a mind of any originality, is more worth to the world than any re-expression of the thought of some other mind, however great.

    Cobwebs of Thought Arachne

  • Following the general law of harmony between form and content, the beauty of sound should be functional; that is, it should never be developed for its own sake alone, but also to intensify, through re-expression, the mood of the thoughts.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • It was a re-expression of ideas and ideals that had already been often proclaimed to the dull ears of the world.

    Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905

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