But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.
Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further rese...
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
Style offers concrete rules you can follow. You can use it as a resource rather than a barrier to feeling good about yourself.
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.