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• in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Death, Children, Play

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• Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Beautiful, Writing

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• Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Garden, Tree, Parks

  Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass fault

  Kanye West

  Fall, Faults, Ass

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• I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.

  Antony Starr

  Jobs, Wall, Coffee

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

  Otto Weininger

  Reality, Doe, Genius

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (p. 139), 1906.

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• When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

  Erich Fromm

  Encouragement, People, Vision

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Good Governance cannot remain merely a philosophy. Concrete steps have to be taken for realizing its goals.

  Narendra Modi

  Philosophy, Taken, Goal

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• I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

  Rupert Graves

  Careers, Acting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Real, Believe

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• People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Wall, Names, People

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• What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Old Things, Political, Needs

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• Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

  James H. Austin

  Simple, Everyday, Experience

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.12, MIT Press

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• By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.

  George Orwell

  Hatred, Leader, Doctrine

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.

  Julien Benda

  Attitude, Men, Greek

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 151-152, 1927.

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• By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Goal, Legends

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

  R. D. Laing

  Spring, Light, Flames

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• The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Law, Ideas, Giving

  "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 76, 1926.

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• We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

  Jane Addams

  Intellectual, Done, Spheres

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.128, Youcanprint

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• To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in which, even on issues which to one are fundamental, others are allowed to pursue different ends. It is for this reason that to the liberal neither moral nor religious ideals are proper objects of coercion, while both conservatives and socialists recognize no such limits.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Religious, Commitment, Order

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.

  Diane Glancy

  Writing, Thinking, Events

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press

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• When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science? When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

  John Dewey

  Medicine, Humanity, Inquiry

  1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy.

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• Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Space, Events, Division

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• And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses you had to water and giver fertilizer or they'd die. But weeds, indigenous plants, you gave them nada-nothing; hell you even poisoned them and put concrete over them, and those weeds would still break the concrete.

  Victor Villasenor

  Weed, Water, Rose

  Victor Villasenor (2008). “Burro Genius”, p.21, HarperCollins Español

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• People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

  John Brunner

  Hate, People, Dangerous

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.207, Macmillan

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