C Quotes
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“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods-in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
“Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort”
“Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.”
Source: The Selected Letters
“Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.”
“Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.”
Source: The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel
“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.”
“Concern for the people should burn like the fire of God in your veins.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.”
Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
“Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.”
“Concern yourself not with what you tried
and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
“Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible to do.
Pope John XXIII”
Source: What Happened
“Concern yourselves more with the needs of others, with the needs of all humanity, and you'll have peace of mind.”
“Concerned about my safety, are you? -William Herondale.”
“Concerned and afraid are not the same thing.”
Source: For the Throne
“CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!”
“Concerned consumers are realizing that they can use social media to organize themselves around shared values to start effective movements. Social media gives them a sounding board to share ideas, as well as a means to punish irresponsible corporate behaviors.”
“Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.”
Source: Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912
“Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DoD spends taxpayer dollars.”
“Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?”
“Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is found by conscientious attempts accurately to portray a reality that exists independently of our perception or attitudes or other attributes such as race, ethnicity, sex or class.”
Source: The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994
“Concerning about someone else is to open the doors of our dungeon.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field seem sometimes to be under the wrath of God themselves; for, like those who write of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy or on Spanish politics, they seem to become tinctured with the kind of lunacy they set out to describe.”
Source: The Origins of Modern Science
“Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.”
“Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.”
“Concerning anti-Christian Bigotry, the mass media in our nation relentlessly attack anything that even remotely champions morality or Judeo-Christian values.”
“Concerning B12, 39% of Americans have a B12 deficiency yet only 1% of Americans are vegan. How can this be a vegan issue? And if nearly everyone in America is sick or has died from a disease, yet only 1% is vegan, how can sickness be a vegan problem?”
“Concerning Concealment as a symptom of love for Krsna:
"It has been stated, 'although Srimati Radharani developed a deep loving affection for Krsna, She hid Her attitude in the core of Her heart so that others could not detect Her actual condition.”
Source: The Nectar of Devotion: The Complete Science of Bhakti-Yoga
“Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.”
“Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.”
“Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.”
“Concerning intelligence, "the capability to identify what to carefully examine—often a decision driven by mathematical analysis—has become as essential as the capacity to gather the intelligence itself." -- K. Lee Lerner. Cornwall, U.K. May, 2003.”
Source: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, 3 volume set
“Concerning intelligence, "the capability to identify what to carefully examine—often a decision driven by mathematical analysis—has become as essential as the capacity to gather the intelligence itself." K. Lee Lerner. Cornwall, U.K. May, 2003. intelligence, "the capability to identify what to carefully examine—often a decision driven by mathematical analysis—has become as essential as the capacity to gather the intelligence itself." -- K. Lee Lerner. Cornwall, U.K. May, 2003.”
Source: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, 3 volume set
“Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.”
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
“Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes.”
“Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.”
“Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.”
“Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.”
Source: Sermons on Galatians
“Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia. But the biggest harm is currently caused by the decline of the prices for energy. We suffer dangerous revenue losses in our export of oil and gas, which we can partly compensate for elsewhere. But the whole thing also has a positive side: if you earn so many petrodollars - as we once did - that you can buy anything abroad, this slows down developments in your own country.”
“Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.”
“Concerning persecution against Christians in America, for those who say it can't happen here - it is already happening here in America. Christians are being increasingly persecuted for their beliefs and bold stand for Jesus Christ.”
“Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."”
“Concerning spiritual things, many have adopted the language of it and neglected its reality. There's more talk going on about it and less experience of its beauty, its reality, and its effectual power.”
“Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.”
“Concerning the common currency: today, the euro is not worth it for Poland. The reason why we survived the financial and economic crisis quite well is that we have a national currency. This will not change in the near future.”
“Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]”
“Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals
“Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.”
Source: Writings on Art and Literature
“Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)