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• The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

  Ernest Mandel

  Class, Organization, Problem

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

  Sherrod Brown

  Building Up, Iraq, People

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• we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how

  Tupac Shakur

  Rose, Thank God, Sun

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• I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Riches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Character, Mean

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• Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

  Carter Heyward

  Sweet, Inspirational Love, Heart

  "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

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• We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

  Max Bill

  Art, Natural, Resources

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• So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.

  Robert Sternberg

  Children, Example, Disability

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Rose, Scratches

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• In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Games, Connections, Different

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• Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Difficult, Courses

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• Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Individual, Platonic

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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• My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

  David Antin

  Thinking, Way, Path

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• Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Judging, Evil

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• Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

  James Laughlin

  Beautiful, Wall, Book

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• Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Action, Obscure, Unconscious

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

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• No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

  J. P. Morgan

  Mistake, Science, Simple

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

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• We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

  Joe Slovo

  Believe, People, Assumption

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• Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mind, Violent, Type

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Gmos, Musical, Variation

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• The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  War, Independent, Sovereign

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• I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Mind, Details, May

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