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"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."
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"My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her."

"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."

"Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation."

"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."

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

"We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop."

"So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours."
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"On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self."

"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."

"If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences."

"To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point."

"No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought."

"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."

"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."

"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."

"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."
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