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“When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible.”
Dalai Lama
“As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”
Calvin Trillin
“Let them call me rebel, and welcome; I feel no concern from it. For I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.”
Thomas Paine
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”
Charles de Lint
“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”
John Stuart Mill
“Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.”
Karen Horney
“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
Sigmund Freud
“To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.”
Plato
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