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• I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

  Ansel Adams

  Believe, Artist, Degrees

  Ansel Adams (1975). “The role of the artist in conservation”

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• The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

  Edward Abbey

  Artist, Technique, Truth Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.

  Zadie Smith

  Rights, Duty

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• I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Writing, Ivory, People

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

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• Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

  Gene Autry

  Work, Gambling, Hell

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• The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

  James Madison

  Diversity, Miracle, Degrees

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.27, University of Virginia Press

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• So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted to mean that we will not honour international obligations. I want to say for the purpose of the record that there is nothing that has been said on behalf of the Government of India which in the slightest degree indicates that the Government of India or the Union of India will dishonour any international obligations it has undertaken.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mean, Government, India

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• One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence.  Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge […].  Care for human existence and its truth makes philosophy a 'practical science' in the deepest sense, and it also leads philosophy—and this is the crucial point—into the concrete distress of human existence.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Philosophy, Care, Likes

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

  Debbie Allen

  Thinking, Needs, Reason

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• So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  "Oral history interview with Robert Rauschenberg". Interview with Dorothy Seckler, www.aaa.si.edu. December 21, 1965.

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• What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an idea. It is the process of conception and realization with which the artist is concerned.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Important

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  PJ Harvey

  Blessed, Inspiration, Trying

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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• If I was concerned about my legacy, there’s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about some¬thing other than the music, then that’s what it is. I’ll never make that mistake.

  Eric Church

  Mistake, Reality, Careers

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• I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do, and perhaps an important one.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Believe, Race, Space

  The Associated Press obituary, April 27, 1988.

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• On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Order, Games

  Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.254, Courier Corporation

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• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

  Junot Diaz

  Rights, World, Should

  "The Dominican Republic and Haiti: A Shared View from the Diaspora". Interview with Richard Andre, americasquarterly.org. 2014.

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• He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Memories, Quality, Remember

  Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press

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• Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Broken

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• One must not be shy where language is concerned.

  Ann Patchett

  Shy, Language

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.198, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

  George Soros

  People, Doe, Social

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• I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, Moving, Mean

  "Voter intimidation–guess the party". Interview with Pat Gray, www.glennbeck.com.

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• The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Destiny, Mirrors

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Leader, Limits

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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