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522 Concrete quotes by 424 unique authors

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not… — Ferdinand de Saussure
During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference. — Pope Francis
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes
The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from… — Edward Glaeser
Scripture starts with the particular and then universalizes it. You are called to love your concrete individual neighbor and then to realize that every individual… — Peter Kreeft
Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro… — Laurent Fabius
I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we… — Barack Obama
I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing… — Pierre Schaeffer
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much… — Brian Ferneyhough
The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. — Arthur Scargill
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until… — Chauncey Wright
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… — Cliff Stearns
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… — Gaston Bachelard
Yes I marked the spot in the garage..when I was back at the house on December 22. They had asked me with all of the… — John Wayne Gacy
I was attracted to the concept of Hollywood and the lifestyle here. But I've grown to mistrust it because it has changed. I didn't bargain… — Edward Ruscha
Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. — Marcus Buckingham
Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.… — Gian-Carlo Rota
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several thousand… — Willy Brandt
On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.… — Walter Pater
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a continuous system of… — Kenny Smith
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact. — Alfred North Whitehead
Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again. — Susan Vaught

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