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• I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Block, Night

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.301, A&C Black

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• Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Sex, Race

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• Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

  Arthur Erickson

  Meaningful, Glasses, Space

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• We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fall, Reality, Opposites

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• Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

  Dana Spiotta

  Memories, Childhood, Emotion

  "Live Chat with Dana Spiotta". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.

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• Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Next, Willpower, Easier

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale

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• Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fashion

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.164

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• A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Science, Definitions, Scales

  The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9, (p. 594), November 1984.

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• I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

  William Baziotes

  Painting, Theory, Evolve

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• The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Sympathetic, Situation

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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• being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Law, Leaving

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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

  Sue Grafton

  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

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• It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.

  Celso Amorim

  Apology, Would Be, Shock

  "Straw 'very sorry' over shooting", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2005.

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• There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Attitude, Winning

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.139, Crown Business

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• Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Inspirational Life, Desire

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• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Steel

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• Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

  Thomas Troward

  Desire, Facts, Dues

  Thomas Troward (2013). “The Wisdom of Thomas Troward”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.

  Walter Bonatti

  Oxygen, Ideas, Pyramids

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• If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

  David Ignatow

  Flower, Smell, Cracks

  "Poems, 1934-1969".

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• We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'

  Albert Camus

  Real, Past, Life And Death

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.97, Vintage

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• If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Success, Stars, Philosophy

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• Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past ... [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives.

  Pope John Paul II

  Past, People, Use

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• To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Brother, Mean

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• I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?

  Tom Shroder

  Ideas, Atheism, Life After Death

  Tom Shroder (1999). “Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• If you throw seeds on concrete, they won't grow. They have to meet fertile soil. So it is with germs. Even if they do get into your body, unless it is nice and acidic, they can't grow and multiply and make you sick - or kill you.

  Robert O. Young

  Nice, Sick, Body

  Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young (2008). “The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health”, p.28, Hachette UK

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