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• Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.

  Melina Mercouri

  Treasure, Acropolis, Littles

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• I think it's the business part of the word show business that causes me the most concern.

  Brent Spiner

  Thinking, Causes, Shows

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• The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Soul, Authenticity, Modern

  "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

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• I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  Abdolkarim Soroush

  People, Needs, Firsts

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• To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hipster, Afternoon, Literature

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• Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

  Len Wein

  Titles, Lenses, Looks

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• As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Senior, Travel, Idaho

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• My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

  George Dzundza

  People, Portrayal, Embarrassed

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• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  Ted Shackelford

  Years, Theatre, Dinner

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• I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

  Angus Wilson

  Men, Common, Should

  Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.422, Faber & Faber

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• In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.

  Stanford Moore

  Benefits, Lifetime, Nobel

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• How we continue to fund Medicare and Medicaid into the future is a pressing issue of national concern.

  James T. Walsh

  Medicare And Medicaid, Issues, Fund

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• The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dark, Light, Discovery

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Slavery, Suits, Sometimes

  Gerrit Smith (1856). “Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress”, p.22

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• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

  John Redwood

  Europe, Democracy, Needs

  "Why the EU debate still matters" by John Redwood, www.brugesgroup.com.

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• There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

  Ramsey Clark

  Criminals, Way, Prison

  Keynote address to American Correctional Association conference, Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 1967

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• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spiritual, Law, Space

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

  Peter Garrett

  Community, Matter, Climate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

  Hu Shih

  People, Chinese, Confucianism

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• I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Generations, Immortality

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• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  Barbara Olson

  Law, Life And Death, Political

  Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Pregnancy, Heart, Mind

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• Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Work, Struggle

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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