Concrete Quotes - Page 30

• Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

  Paulo Freire

  Destiny, Order, Historical

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  Time, Grace, Saving

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• It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

  John Dewey

  Children, Philosophy, Educational

  John Dewey (2010). “The Child and the Curriculum: Including the School and Society”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a great sweep of the wrist, dropped him on the ground like a cut flower. As always, I carefully cleared the engine, turned off all the switches one by one, removed the straps, the wires and the tubes which tied me to him, like a child to his mother. And when my waiting pilots and my mechanics saw my downcast eyes and my shaking shoulders, they understood and returned to the dispersal in silence.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Mother, Children, Flower

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• I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

  M. Ward

  Writing, Kind, Painting

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• If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

  Herbert Benson

  Inspirational, People, Mind

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• The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

  Robert Breault

  Reality, Optimism, Clay

  "Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from.

  Kevin Carson

  Hands, Ideas, Slavery

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• The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

  John Bargh

  Thinking, World, Way

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• We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Wish, Want

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• It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

  Josh Radnor

  Taxi Cabs, Rivers, Lakes

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• You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
  But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Art, House

  Le Corbusier (1931). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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