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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so. ↗

— John Barry

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It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder. ↗

— John Belushi

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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. ↗

— Marlon Brando

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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. ↗

— Judith Butler

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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I don't put myself under pressure. ↗

— Usain Bolt

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