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• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Color, America

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.144, One World

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• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Holocaust

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• Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?

  Ron Rosenbaum

  Evil, Perfect, Marxist

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• You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

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• That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vision, Purpose, Artistic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions

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• I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

  Brendon Burchard

  Meaningful, Challenges, Demand

  Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

  Noam Chomsky

  Yield, Concentration Of Wealth, Giving

  Noam Chomsky (2012). “Occupy”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• We lack an organization that will support fashion week. The five-day week shows a lack of vision and that we are not able to command respect. I am not saying it's anyone's fault in particular, it's our fault. We have the highest concentration of brands, how can we accommodate everyone in four or five days?

  Franca Sozzani

  Fashion, Organization, Support

  Source: wwd.com

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

  Novalis

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strive

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.117

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• Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Simple, Your Side

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• When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Healing, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...the waiter has to come from a place of concentration, subjugation, and complete, limitless service. Nothing is too much trouble. The customer is always right, even when he is wrong. There is no limit to what you will do to serve while that person is in your bar and in your care.

  Stuart Wilde

  Giving, Bars, Care

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.109, Hay House, Inc

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• If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Reality, Focus

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• Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

  Tryon Edwards

  Memories, Attention, Interest

  Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”

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• I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Truth, Honesty

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• Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Life, Wisdom, Opposites

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• Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Views, Years, Parent

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

  Albert Belle

  Motivation, Attitude, Recovery

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.15, ECW Press

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• Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

  Susan Cain

  Focus, Tasks, Wealth

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.11, Broadway Books

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• Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Fabric

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

  Chris Bosh

  Repetition

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• It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

  Walter Scott

  Heart, Eye, Looks

  Walter Scott (2015). “Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering”, p.48, e-artnow

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• Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

  Brendan Behan

  People, Interruptions, Insignificant

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