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• Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading. If the government is committed to continue the Open Door policy, they will need to come up with concrete policies and execution steps to increase confidence.

  Zhang Xin

  Government, Doors, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.

  Lucy Corin

  Wall, Writing, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but you're never going to see that on a day-to-day basis. People fluctuate. To me, that was the most specific way to put it, the best way to be like, "I listen to this music, but it's the most violent music on the planet." But I like it, and to make up for it, I don't say the cuss words. That's how I get away with it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Moral

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and I look for vigorous prose, which is the only kind I can read for very long. That effectively bars a great deal of scholarly work, but I didn't feel its loss.

  Luc Sante

  Loss, Long, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.

  Nicholas Royle

  Two, House, Personality

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

  Feist

  Confused, Cities, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

  Chris Milk

  Emotional, Video, Interaction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

  Matthea Harvey

  Thinking, Ideas, Mixing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call them incarnations. In various religions, myths, and legends, the word "incarnation" refers to the birth or emergence of transcendent beings in the form of humans or other bodies. If "incarnation" denotes the appearance of an abstract being in some concrete form, in a gut ceremony, a shaman could be considered an incarnation of our desires, hopes, and sorrows. The incarnations that appear in my work are always new and I meet them for the first time by drawing them.

  Hyon Gyon

  Sorrow, Desire, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Principles, Compromise

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• Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Mean, People

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• If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Running, Together, Stitches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.27, Scholastic UK

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• Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Character, Compassion

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 1994.

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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• Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

  Derek Walcott

  Art, Church, Village

  Derek Walcott, “From 'Omeros'”

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• For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities and talents with which nature has endowed them, and turn them to social account.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Philosophical, Development, Talent

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.16, AK Press

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• God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Mean, Broken

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• Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Long, Romance, Abstract

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

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• Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

  Herta Muller

  Home, Sleep, Long

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• Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

  Millard Fuller

  Circles, People, Creative

  Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

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• Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

  Marc Benioff

  Keys, Collaboration, Needs

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• When the Bible uses the words salvation, Savior, and save, it's speaking of the total work of God in bringing people from a state of death - hopeless separation from God - to a state of everlasting life through the forgiveness of sin, based on the merits of Christ Jesus who died and rose again. Saving us is the greatest and most concrete demonstration of God's love, the definitive display of His grace throughout time and eternity.

  David Jeremiah

  Jesus, People, Rose

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• A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

  Joel Salatin

  Moving, Air, Land

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• Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks.  It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry.  Silence is solitude practiced in action.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Cells, Discipline

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.23, HarperCollins

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