Concern Quotes
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The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern.
Daniel Fried
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The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
Thomas R. Cech
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Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
Anthony Giddens
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Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
George Washington
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The Bible says that when we obey God’s commands, we benefit. I think we naturally assume that if we look out for our own interests and concerns, we will be happy. But people who sacrifice for others will tell you that seasons of giving are the most rewarding of their lives.
Francis Chan
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Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.
Paul Davies
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My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
Sun Myung Moon
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I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.
Cate Marvin
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Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.
David Fisher
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
Raymond Queneau
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We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.
Dalai Lama
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Concern has mounted progressively, and events in recent weeks justify that concern.
Margaret Chan
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My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
Hilary Mantel
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Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To which Quine is said to have responded: Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.
Chet Raymo
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
William James
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Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
Cedric Price
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Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards.
Jose Rizal
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Historically, they have tended to avoid being active, because they had some concern about it helping or hurting them, as the case may be.
Lew Wasserman
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I don't think we were anticipating that much concern from the community about the P.S. Jones school
John Whiting
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In 1902 I left the A.E.G. in order to enter finance. I joined the management of one of our big banks, the Berliner Handelsge-Sellschaft, and reorganized a great part of its industrial undertakings. I gained an insight into German and foreign industry, and belonged at that time to nearly a hundred different concerns. To recognize and create a demand is the secret of all sound business.
Walther Rathenau
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With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
Marianne Williamson
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To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Plato
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What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
Paul Gauguin
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
William Hazlitt