"I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern."
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"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."
"The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable."
"It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies."
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
"What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them."
"Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world."
"My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings."
"We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons."
"I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
"My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free."
"Compassion is concern of others' well being."
"To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
"Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values."
"My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!"
"Futurity is the great concern of mankind."
"I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out."
"My collection of rare books concerns only books that don't tell the truth."
"Take the time to understand your audience's concerns."