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“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.”

Men Firsts May Long Government Wife Ought Citizens Taste Conscience Concern Affection Neighbor Suits Interfere

Author:Lydia M. Child

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.”

Giving Has Beens Facts Would Be Force Results Numbers Equal Capable Concern Dollars Workers Average Ill Productions Tragic Cents Employers Animated Goodwill Ill Will

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.”

Shows Interesting Attitude Company Concern Sight Notes Workers Supreme Chiefs Tragic Executives Boss Working It Show Me Files Illuminating Chief Executives

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Many concerns now make part or the whole of their dividends from by-products that formerly went to waste. How do we, as individuals, utilize our principal by-product? Our principal by-product is, of course, our leisure time. Many years of observation forces the conclusion that a man's success or failure in life is determined as much by how he acts during his leisure as by how he acts during his work hours. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how he is likely to spend the latter part of his life.”

“The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.”

Causes Common Concern Investment Investing Distinction Speculation Disappearance

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?”

Ifs Years Wells Moments Might Growth Company Ten Concern Rate Investing

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“One ought not to write for money, but I consider it a first duty after one has written to exact the highest possible price. It is not a matter which concerns only the writer, but all writers.”

Writing Firsts Matter Written Duty Ought Highest Concern

Author:Mary Abigail Dodge

“There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in.”

Two Reason Evil Elements Concern Infinite Productions Discussion Consideration Continuity Labyrinth

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.”

People Creatures Capable Concern Folks Manage Plenty Neglect Neighbour Bargains Busybodies

Book:ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.”

Writing Wells Able Past Order Subjects Concern

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”

Knows Ideas Different Science Order Understanding Answers Events Concern Function Increase Philosophical Reports Interpretation Implications Factual Philosophical Questions

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.”

Thinking Knows Fool Concern Ignorant

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet.”

“Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.”

Has Beens Important States Issues Taken Concern Fundamentals Lists Preparation Exalted Elimination

Author:Talaat Pasha

“You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”

Want Dream Past Company Too Much Future Protect Survival Concern Concerned Longing Dues Extinction Protect Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards a mother's excessive concern, or even excessive control, but towards her inability to see, and appreciate, their maturing identity.”

Wanted Mother Girl Fighting Identity Concern Appreciate Independence Acknowledge Mature Resentment Adolescence Inability Interference

Author:Terri E Apter

“The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.”

Shows Care Running Earth Environment Economic Concern Rivers Transformation Environmental Forests Desert Dependent Concrete Fertile Livelihood

Book:Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence

Source: Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence

“Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.”

Men Concern Empty Affair Experts Plates Dishes Dividing Cupboards

Book:The Shipping News: A Novel

Source: The Shipping News: A Novel

“Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or so immediately our concern, as those which let us into the knowledge of our own nature. Others may exercise the understanding or amuse the imagination; but these only can improve the heart and form the human mind to wisdom.”

World Mind Humans Heart May Use Form Understanding Imagination Exercise Concern Importance Entertainment Human Mind Self-examination

Author:William Warburton

“Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.”

Freedom Concern Absence About Yourself

Book:Being-in-dreaming

Source: Being-in-dreaming

“Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.”

Evil Prove Concern Principal Ruling

Author:William James

“The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!”

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

Humans Important Human Beings Responsibility Commitment Concern Fellows Important Things Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Dalai Lama

“As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.”

Needs Humans Care Humanity Social Wealth Human Beings Animal Responsibility Compassion Concern Satisfaction Inner Strength Caring For Others Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.”

Life Home Moral Duty Depends Concern Oneself Neglect Phases Discharge Moral Duty Phases Of Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.”

People Has Beens Care Numbers Broken Skills Concern Affair Fragments Maximum Public Affairs

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”

Men Feels Children Beautiful Generations Youth Flower Adults Concern Ridiculous Tenderness Bachelors

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.”

People Knows Life Long Political Policy Inspire Confidence Skills Concern Combination Fairness Innate Long Life Personal Touch

Author:William J. Clinton

“Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.”

May Done Fear Concern Harm Repentance Remorse

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.”

Feels Feelings Political Sex Interest Opinion Cases Equal Concern Affair Superiors Consideration American Woman

Author:Catharine Beecher

“If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.”

Ifs Bigs Change Concern Structure Ships Cooks Chickens

Author:Roger Clemens

“Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation fed by a subtle fear of the heart. We pull back, believing that what happens to others is not our concern. Our courage leaves us. Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.”

Way Believe Heart Happens Movement Concern Silent Caring Separation Indifference Subtle Feds Resignation Misguided Not Caring

Book:The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace

Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace

“We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.”

Race Marriage Practice Benefits Concern Our Family Posterity

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.”

Two Earth Purpose Christ Secret Study Mystery Mankind Concern Program Kingdoms Divided Word Of God Prophecy Reign Dealings Exaltation Millennials

Author:Paul Sadler

“If it's concerning immigration, do something on immigration, put your concerns on the President's actions and I'll vote on them. I'm not going to play politics and start playing around with the Homeland Security, there's no pressure that's going to change where I am.”

Ifs Play Action Politics President Change Security Concern Vote Pressure Immigration Homeland Homeland Security Playing Around No Pressure

Author:Joe Manchin

“The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.”

People Doe Matter Causes Freedom Effort Talking Concern Program Abuse Data Usa Collections Abandon Routine Contemplating Telephones Propose Databases Usa Freedom

Author:Mike Lee

“Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.”

Ifs Men Should Young Concern Ridiculous Old Man Young Women

Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.”

Way Attention Roles Activity Behavior Concern Direct Psychological Participation Interpersonal

Author:Nancy Chodorow

“The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.”

Past Existence Possibility Concern Psychological Behave Paradox Lively

Book:Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice

Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice

“It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.”

Energy Poet Concern Tone Rhyme Truthfulness Fusion Cadence Buoyancy Fission

Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.”

Ifs Faces Social Break Economic Concern Environmental Breaking Down Involving Modification

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.”

Humans Social Conscience Concern Environmental Meaningless

Author:Jacque Fresco

“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.”

“Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.”

“Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family. No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development. With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects.”

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.”

Men Civilization Survival Concern Environmental Landscape Beach Enjoyment Pollution Conservation Spoil Debris

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish.”

Source: Vital Signs 1999-2000: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

“You know that the air and water are being polluted, as is everything we touch and live with, and we go on corrupting the nature that we need. We don't realize we have a commitment to God to take care of nature. To cut down a tree, to waste water when there is so much lack of it, to let buses poison our atmosphere with those noxious fumes from their exhausts, to burn rubbish haphazardly-all that concerns our alliance with God.”

Knows Needs Care Water Realizing Cutting Air Tree Goes On Waste Commitment Concern Environmental Take Care Atmosphere Poison Bus Pollution Alliances Commitment To God Rubbish Air And Water

Author:Oscar Romero