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• Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

  Lewis Mumford

  Funny, Witty, Flower

  Quote Magazine 8 Oct. 1961

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• Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mind, Violent, Type

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

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• We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

  Joe Slovo

  Believe, People, Assumption

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• For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Games, Literature, Pages

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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• In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

  Theodor Adorno

  Responsibility, Abstract, Universal

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.25, Verso

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• Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Action, Obscure, Unconscious

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  Tadao Ando

  Religious, Church, Trying

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• I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

  Clara Hughes

  Hockey, Ice, Goes On

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• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Law, Physics

  "Albert Einstein, 14 March, 1879-18 April 1955: A guide for the perplexed". Book by Albert Einstein, 1979.

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• The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Vision, Abiding, Painter

  Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20

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• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Powerful, Writing, Goal

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.80, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Real, Color

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• Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Next Day, Growth, Useless

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.228, Random House

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  Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.

  T. D. Jakes

  Garden, Past, Greatness

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• Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Mean, Anecdotes

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.45, Yale University Press

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Sad, Money

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• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  Karl Jaspers

  Philosophy, Taxi, Comprehension

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• More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

  Alva Myrdal

  Order, Done, Causes

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Ideas, Two, Cinema

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

  Cliff Stearns

  Years, Justice, Religion

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• Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Baby, Important, Bottles

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Choices, Gasoline

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• We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Peace, Kindness, Learning

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