Concern Quotes - Page 19

• There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.

  Eric Horvitz

  Thinking, Long, Kind

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• I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

  Ralph Allen

  Prejudice, Moments, Paint

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• John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

  Richard Corliss

  Dream, Book, Home

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• My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.

  Jim Hodges

  People, Today, Bigs

  "South Carolina Governor Discusses Snowstorm". "CNN Live Today" with Daryn Kagan, www.cnn.com. January 3, 2002.

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• Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.

  James Gunn

  Real, Past, Technological Change

  James Gunn (1979). “Road to Science Fiction 2”, Signet

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• What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Thinking, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 52, 1799.

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• The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Agriculture, Individuality

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.45, Counterpoint Press

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• To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.

  Henry Fielding

  Voice, Age, Facts

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.500

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• I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Intelligent, Fog, Sea

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “The Horla (Horror Classic): From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Short Story’ writing, known for The Necklace, Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi, Bel-Ami, The Piece of String, A Life…”, p.13, e-artnow

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

  Maxim Gorky

  Class, Intellectual, Growth

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• To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

  Socrates

  Giving, Matter, Poverty

  "Apology". 23a-c. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,

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• All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, War, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.228

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• For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

  Alain de Botton

  Understanding, Laziness, Bob

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Reality, Expectations, Trying

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• The thing is, I've always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is when people find a way to become so involved with life that they're no longer concerned for the future.

  Jim Carrey

  People, Heaven, Way

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Favors

  "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Father, History, Sacred

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part II, Book III, Chapter 3), 1620.

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• We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

  Karen Finney

  Fighting, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

  Allison Mackie

  Dream, Communication, Light

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• Getting the right balance is the primary concern.

  Marion Blakey

  Balance, Primaries

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• The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Future, World, Chance

  "Joyzelle (Act I)". Book by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1903.

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• Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self, Daily Life, Sense Of Self

  Fourth Public Talk, Saanen, Switzerland, July 25, 1971.

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• But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Mind, May

  John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton ...”, p.228

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