“ Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. ”
- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick- Copy
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“ The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak. I say that this concrete language, intended for the senses and independent of speech, has first to satisfy the senses, that there is a poetry of the senses as there is a poetry of language, and that this concrete physical language to which I refer is truly theatrical only to the degree that the thoughts it expresses are beyond the reach of the spoken language… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. ”
- Ada Louise Huxtable- Copy
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“ There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ How can you expect to excite or educate by exhibiting an animal in a concrete bathroom that provides him so little space and variety that he can do no more than men do in bathrooms. ”
- William G. Conway- Copy
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“ I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
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“ Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism. ”
- Bob Hawke- Copy
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“ Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ”
- Desmond Morris- Copy
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“ Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions. ”
- Eddie Perez- Copy
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“ The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places. ”
- Sam Keen- Copy
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“ We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ”
- John Dewey- Copy
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“ The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. ”
- Nora Ephron- Copy
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“ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
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“ You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable. ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
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“ Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. ”
- Thomas Troward- Copy
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“ I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision. ”
- W. Clement Stone- Copy
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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 his heart entirely to money. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. ”
- John Pierpont Morgan- Copy
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“ Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems — but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ Take out of nationalism the blind prejudice, the over-organization, the self-interest for territory and for gold, and you remove its fangs. You then have left a political system for common betterment, a community of ideals, concrete enthusiasms, a means of effective training, racial and geographical cohesions, and programs to direct the lives of the people. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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