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• The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce our energy use, while stimulating whole new industries and technologies that are more efficient and affordable.

  David Suzuki

  Technology, Years, People

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• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reading, Writing, Advice

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• Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.

  Emile Coue

  Reality, Law Of Attraction, Attraction

  "Revival: Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion (1922)".

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• To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Mean, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead (2015). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.109, Cambridge University Press

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• Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Captivity, Pool, Beavers

  Evelyn Waugh (1998). “The Complete Short Stories and Selected Drawings”, Everyman's Library

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• To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

  Bell Hooks

  Inspiring, Reality, Roots

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.110, Routledge

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• Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist anywhere but in the worldly, in an infinite variety of concrete worldly action, and subject to misunderstanding and condemnation. Every attempt to portray a Christianity of 'pure' love purged of worldly 'impurities' is a false purism and perfectionism that scorns God's becoming human and falls prey to the fate of all ideologies. God was not too pure to enter the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Fall, Fate

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• But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

  Susan Griffin

  Voice, Intuition, Way

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• You cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it any plan, desire, or purpose which you wish transformed into concrete form.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hands, Mind, Wish

  Napoleon Hill (2011). “Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic”, p.293, John Wiley & Sons

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• Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Men, Discovery, Innovation

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• Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.

  Genevieve Behrend

  Law Of Attraction, Birth, Form

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• The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!

  Pope John Paul II

  Struggle, Compassion, Long

  Pope John Paul II (2003). “Go in Peace: A Gift of Enduring Love”, p.120, Loyola Press

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• God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Facts, Generalities

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• Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Needs, Satisfaction, Abstract

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.33, Cosimo Classics

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• You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.

  Pope Francis

  Important, Culture, Alive

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• During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

  Pope Francis

  Overcoming, Way, Indifference

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• Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

  Julian Jaynes

  Giving, Use, Coins

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

  Edward Glaeser

  Real, Cities, Collaboration

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• Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But for all that, would he experience the phenomena of inspiration? His human documentation gathered from inspired poets could hardly be related, except from the exterior, in an ideal of objective observations. Comparison of inspired poets would soon make us lose sight of inspiration.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Inspiration, Sight, Documentation

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• I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain for digital access parking in some concrete structure. Real heaven for me was to drive somewhere and park right in front. Now the city is going vertical.

  Edward Ruscha

  Real, Cities, Heaven

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• Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2013

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• Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't. You get the feeling that the result you have discovered is forever, because it's concrete. Other branches of mathematics are not so clear-cut. Functional analysis of infinite-dimensional spaces is never fully convincing; you don't get a feeling of having done an honest day's work. Don't get the wrong idea - combinatorics is not just putting balls into boxes. Counting finite sets can be a highbrow undertaking, with sophisticated techniques.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Cutting, Math, Ideas

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin's and the Patriarch's. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete."

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Crush, Country, Believe

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand connections existed daily, despite administrative division, the concrete pillars were driven into the border, which was expanded like a Chinese wall.

  Willy Brandt

  Wall, Cities, Chinese

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