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• Getting the right balance is the primary concern.

  Marion Blakey

  Balance, Primaries

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• History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Father, History, Sacred

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part II, Book III, Chapter 3), 1620.

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• The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction. To inquire what is beyond it is no concern of man; nor can the human mind form any conjecture concerning it.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Heaven, Mind

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.1, Delphi Classics

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• It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mind, Host

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.

  Allan Bloom

  Mean, Men, Favors

  "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Humanity, Mind, Needs

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• Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Two, Mind

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• When a person spends his entire day with no concern but Allah alone, Allah will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him; He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Worry, Needs

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• When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Flower, Writing, Yield

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.4

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• Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

  George Washington

  Life, Men, Mind

  George Washington (1860). “Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing: With illustrations”, p.152

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• But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Mind, May

  John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton ...”, p.228

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• We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Hair, Body, Littles

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

  Robertson Davies

  Summer, Character, Men

  "Three Worlds, Three Summers - But Not the Summer Just Past". Essay by Robertson Davies, 1949.

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• I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

  Robertson Davies

  Intelligent, Emotional, Thinking

  "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

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• Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Suffering Of Others

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin

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• Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own and follow them strictly.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Average, Want, Orthodoxy

  "Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction". Interview with Michael Cunningham, electricliterature.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

  Hannah Arendt

  Issues, Goal, May

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.246, Penguin

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• Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Together, Demand, Firsts

  A video posting, announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, barackobama.com, January 16, 2007.

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• Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Abhorrent, Rising, Consciousness

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

  George VI

  Ideas, Unity, Together

  1927 Opening, as Duke of York, the first Australian Parliament to assemble in Canberra, 9 May.

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• When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Country, Socialist Countries, People

  Speech at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers Party (12 November 1968), quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy" by Matthew J. Ouimet, 2003.

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• The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

  Marvin Bower

  Differences, People, Negative

  Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.34, Harvard Business Press

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• No more harmful nonsense exists than [the] common supposition that deepest insight into great questions about the meaning of life or the structure of reality emerges most readily when a free, undisciplined, and uncluttered (read, rather, ignorant and uneducated) mind soars above mere earthly knowledge and concern.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Ignorant, Mind

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts", p. 48, May 14, 2002.

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• True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lonely, Children, Museums

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Essence, Justice, Care

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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