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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
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"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern."

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."

"Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them."

"So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours."

"Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country."

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."

"The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle."

"There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore."

"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

"As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men."

"It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary."

"We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be."

"I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill."
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