Concern Quotes - Page 5

• Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

  Harry Chapin

  Life, Relationship, Helping Others

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Son, Gentle, Governors

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  May, Marry Me, Social

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Doe, Proud

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Quality, Improvement

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Past, Essence, Politics

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• My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

  John Thorn

  Failing, Egotistical, Relate

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• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Science, Affair

  1906 Collected in The Notebooks of Paul Klee (published 1957).

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• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Issues, Justice

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

  Fred Upton

  Views, Media, Common Sense

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• It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years.

  Tom Udall

  Mean, Years, Nuclear

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• The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Accountability, Action, Individual

  On Liberty ch. 5 (1859)

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• My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Jobs, Moving, Justice

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• Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

  C. F. Powell

  Done, Feels, Honour

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• John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

  Yoko Ono

  Deep Love, Race, Very Deep

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• It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

  George Pataki

  Real, Views, September

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• If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

  Alan Paton

  Issues, Novel, Publishing

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• There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

  Evan Parker

  Philosophical, Paradox, Contradiction

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• Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Death, Women, Heart

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, Needs, Looks

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• One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Two, People, Dollars

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• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  Pat Roberts

  Real, Agriculture, Community

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• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  Daniel Dennett

  Problem, Ethical, Mathematics

  "Daniel Dennett: Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)". Interview with Hari Kunzru, www.harikunzru.com. December 17, 2008.

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