Concentrated Quotes
283 quotes by 235 authors
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
— Thomas Love Peacock
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
— Walter Bagehot
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In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death…
— Bede Griffiths
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of…
— Gary Kleck
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Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has…
— Man Ray
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From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
— James A. Michener
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I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to…
— James A. Michener
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There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours…
— Unknown Author
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
— Andrew Jackson
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On Sherry: The destiny of a thousand generations is concentrated in each drop. If the cares of the world overwhelm you, only taste it, pilgrim,…
— Unknown Author
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A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light…
— George Eliot
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Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.
— Marlo Morgan
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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
— Walter Bagehot
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When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t…
— Cindy Sherman
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In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small…
— Minnie Driver
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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people…
— William S. Burroughs
Who Wrote These Concentrated Quotes
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