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• It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Fire, Neighbor

  "Epistles". Book by Horace, Book I, epistle xviii, line 84, c. 20 BC and 14 BC.

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• Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Matter, Should, Treated

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.54, Bottom of the Hill

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• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

  Slavery, Theory

  Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.11

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• Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

  Mark Twain

  Tired, Reason, Forbidden

  "The Gorky Incident". Essay by Mark Twain, 1906.

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• My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Genuine, Being True, Humans

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• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  Warren Christopher

  Strong, Russia, Self

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• That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

  Antonia Fraser

  Writing, Bedtime, Prison

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• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

  Henry Miller

  Tree, Joy, Done

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Born out of concern for all beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Law Of Attraction

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• You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

  David Foster Wallace

  Life, Thinking, People

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Character

  Andrew Hill, John Wooden (2002). “Be Quick - But Don't Hurry: Finding Success in the Teachings of a Lifetime”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

  Glennon Melton

  Children, Inspiration, Kids

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• There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Believe In Yourself

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• Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.

  Mamie Till

  Jobs, Nice, Son

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• One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

  Kevin Smith

  Cheating, Work, Women

  FaceBook post by Kevin Smith from Nov 28, 2011

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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Phrases, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Jobs, Thinking, Great Day

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• We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Prayer, Desire, Asking

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Doe, Proud

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Society, Quality, Improvement

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Past, Essence, Politics

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• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Death

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• The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Accountability, Action, Individual

  On Liberty ch. 5 (1859)

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• My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Jobs, Moving, Justice

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