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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
David Lynch
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
John Burroughs
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.


Thomas Jefferson
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
John Donne
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In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
Larry Elder
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.


Paul Cezanne
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Ferdinand Porsche
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.


Richard Rohr
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Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.


Muhammad Iqbal
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Yuri Milner
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Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.
Hugh Laurie
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I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
Luc Ferrari
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The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
John C. Crosby
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China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.
Giorgio Armani
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
Eddie Perez
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
Sergei Eisenstein
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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