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• Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

  Lewis Mumford

  Funny, Witty, Flower

  Quote Magazine 8 Oct. 1961

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• For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

  Josiah Royce

  Individuality, Consciousness, Individualism

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Games, Literature, Pages

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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 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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• 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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• Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

  Bob Hawke

  Real, War, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

  Clara Hughes

  Hockey, Ice, Goes On

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• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Law, Physics

  "Albert Einstein, 14 March, 1879-18 April 1955: A guide for the perplexed". Book by Albert Einstein, 1979.

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• The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Vision, Abiding, Painter

  Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20

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• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Powerful, Writing, Goal

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.80, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Real, Color

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• Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Next Day, Growth, Useless

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House

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  Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.

  T. D. Jakes

  Garden, Past, Greatness

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• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Mean, Anecdotes

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

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• More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

  Alva Myrdal

  Order, Done, Causes

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Sad, Money

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Taxi, Comprehension

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• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Ideas, Two, Cinema

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Trying, Communism, Building

  "How We Must Rebuild Russia". Komsomolskaya Pravda, September 18, 1990.

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• When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

  Donna Tartt

  Rain, Writing, Color

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• For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

  A. R. Ammons

  Needs, Unlimited, Certain

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Baby, Important, Bottles

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