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“The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.”

Country States United United States Share Weapons Concern Program Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Other Countries Ongoing Korea North Korea

Author:Mitchell Reiss

“The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.”

Materials Weapons Concern Currents Terrorism Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Nexus

Author:Mitchell Reiss

“I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.”

Should Firsts Believe Force I Believe Social Century Majors Concern Twenties Environmental Corporations Very Strong

Author:Bill Ford

“However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found to be found in private life. We must learn to see that every problem that concerns us as conservationists always leads straight to the question of how we live. The world is being destroyed, no doubt about it, by the greed of the rich and powerful. It is also being destroyed by popular demand.”

Source: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays

“We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.”

“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.”

“Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest level of development. Those who are only interested in their own satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along. Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of others.”

Father Levels Development Concern Saint Satisfaction Karma Primaries Welfare Lowest

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.”

Moving Ought Majors Concern Nuclear Moving Forward Iran

Author:Steve Scalise

“I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.”

Thinking Stupid Concern

Author:John Travolta

“For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.”

Children Earth Nations Air Sea Concern Hunger Pollution Foe Plague Hazards Plunder Pestilence

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)

“But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.”

Years Lasts Poet Concern Snow Last Year

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.”

“Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.”

Kind Different Whole Blessing Ordinary Concern Different Kinds Bothered Ordinary Life Superhuman Humanness Not Bothered

Author:Rajneesh

“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”

Wells May Soul Adventure Wall Shadow Concern Consistency Self Reliance Misunderstood Reliance Inconsistency Great Souls Little Minds

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.”

Littles Motivation Consequence Concern Motive Liable Preoccupation

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Should Wells Children Art Parent Knowledge Virtue Concern Careful Manners Innocence Good Manners More Knowledge Speaking Well

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.”

Art Philosophy Beautiful Beauty History Concern Beautiful Things

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.”

Heart Learning Concern Originals Sole

Author:Mencius

“Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.”

Lasts Courses Asks Cases Society Century Concern Scientist Forgotten Meaningless Pretext Dizzy Pertinent Pertinent Questions

Author:Arthur Koestler

“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

Humans Light Form Imagine Color Expression Concern Structure Chaos Envy Painter Torment Restful

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.”

Ifs Way Stills Reason Use Running Church Common Mankind Quiet Concern Hearing Doctrine Obscure Disputes Another Way Curb

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.”

Men Should Speech Judgment Concern Mercy Preaching Ambassadors Lightness

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”

May Running Reading Sides Path Depends Concern Shame Shining Misery

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.”

Concern Angry Slander

Author:Ben Jonson

“I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.”

Men Littles Boys Youth Concern Fats Sixteen

Book:The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2

Source: The Ingoldsby Legends, Volume 2

“The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”

Art Artist Song Struggle Higher Concern Difficulty Locals Temporary Disturbance

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.”

Firsts Children Interest Concern Our Children Priorities Welfare

Author:Eddie Murphy

“What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?”

Art Stills Mistake Doubt Progress Concern Track Making Mistakes Right Track

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”

Writing Careers Audience Concern Painful

Author:Marsha Norman

“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Impossible Concern Window Sight

Author:Andre Breton

“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.”

Ideas Ends Whole Individual Community Numbers Building Expression Areas Concern Garden Importance Relation Structure Notion Architecture Planning Great Men Prime Good Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.”

Firsts May Matter Found Too Much Concern Edges Reactions Recognition Conventional Composition

Author:Ansel Adams

“A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.”

Mankind Development Concern Perfection Symptoms

Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.”

People Purpose Church Concern

Author:Jim Carrey

“Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.”

Matter Asks Speak Concern Curious Self Control

Author:Teresa of Avila

“When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Enjoy Forget Concern Dear Enjoyment Anxious Enjoy Life Solicitude Dear Life

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.”

Spiritual Mother Desire Father Community Concern Concerned Welfare Related Purity Mundane Mother's Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“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.”

Should Able Spiritual Individual Social Destiny Achieve Materials Concern Concerned Harmony Blind Prosperity Obligation Welfare Social Obligation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.”

Seems Turns Force Prayer Concern Blind Items Counting Turn To God Supernatural Forces

Book:Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.”

Way Needs Believe Law Order Causes Religious Security Concern Safety Institutions Balanced Sensitivity Observance Accommodations

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.”

Men Desire Lost Natural Emotion Concern Relation Absolutes Contact Exalted

Author:Barnett Newman

“What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern... It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family and to his society.”

Thinking Important Joy Individual Concern

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.”

Way Giving Trying Matter Able Lord Periods Concern Adversity Worthy Appropriate Where You Are

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.”

“With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.”

Kind Long Real Eye Turns Race Concern Blind Statistics Blindness Blind Eyes

Author:Richard Ney

“The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.”

Humans Age Choices Issues Concern Human Life Ongoing Immune Second Choice

Author:Diane Duane

“An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.”

States Nations Community Members Research Areas Concern Investment Raised Cells Stem Caution Scientific Research Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Author:Joe Donnelly

“The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.”

States Running Effort Movement Huge Concern South Borders Parks Lakes Agriculture Belts Restoration National Parks Scenic Everglades

Author:Carl Hiaasen

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