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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."
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"It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it."
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"The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat."
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"A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern."
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"Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own."
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"The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern."
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"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."
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"Everyone I have spoken with so far recognises the need for the IRA to respond positively and every has said sooner is better than later and I think there is some concern if it does continue to delay much longer that the situation isn't going to remain the same."
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"We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path."
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"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."
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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."
Love

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."
Friendship

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
People

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
Home

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship

"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."
Work

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."
Truth

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
Age

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."
Learning

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
Literature
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