“Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.” NeedsGivingDoePastOrderPresidentWorrySecurityConcernDemocraticDebtToneNational SecurityJoblessnessDeafBin LadenAssassinationOsama Bin Laden Author:Ron Fournier
“I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.” YearsSeemsPastUsedConcernComicNovelistsOver The PastDescribe Myself Author:Tom Perrotta
“In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.” FirstsMayTwoReasonUsePastMediaConcernOrganizationIndependencePressesJournalistOperationsDamageInherentCommitteesCredibilityCiaMisleadExaminingPast And PresentFree PressCovert Author:Frank Church
“The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living history’ that concerns us all, regardless of our background, culture, or religion. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, on several continents. How can we draw better lessons from the past?” WorldDoeWarPastCultureLessonsDrawsConcernBackgroundsWar Of The WorldsGenocideHolocaustContinentsSecond World War Author:Irina Bokova
“Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.” PeopleWorldRealMatterPastLiteratureIndividualCommunityDealsRaceFictionGreaterEffectsDangerCivilizationConcernImportanceScience FictionBranchesReal WorldTechnologicalTechnological Change Book:Road to Science Fiction 2 Source: Road to Science Fiction 2
“I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.” ThinkingWorldFeelsWritingTryingLightPastDarkStyleCapableConcernDetailsSentencesGrantedParagraph Author:Michael Chabon
“From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.” MenMayStillsBodyAgeActionPastOrderStrongPayAttentionStruggleMiddleSpecialYouthHe ManAmountExerciseOrdinaryWeaknessConcernVariousDuesAriseOccasionsSufficientEngagedMusclesInternalsOrgansLimbsMiddle AgesLife StruggleStalwart Author:Richard A. Proctor
“I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.” MenShouldMindBelieveHas BeensStillsImportantMatterSeemsAgePastEnergyWealthMiddleConcernConcernedEconomicsDebateCeasePrimariesMeaninglessControversyExclusiveMiddle AgesTheologicalGrown ManPolitics And Economics Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present” ReasonTodayPastArtistValuesPleasureInterestingQualityPaintingEssentialsConcernHistoricalDuesMannersRepresentationHistorical Value Book:The Painters of Modern Life Source: The Painters of Modern Life