#concrete

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I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.


James Laughlin


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We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.


Grace Napolitano


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Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.


Kenneth L. Pike


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The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.


Ernest Mandel


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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.


William James


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Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.


Jeane Kirkpatrick


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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.


Mark Rothko


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For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.


Josiah Royce


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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


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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.


Arthur Schopenhauer


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