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• Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Art, War, Sleep

  Eiji Yoshikawa (1989). “The Art of War”, Pocket

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• No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

  Anne Bronte

  Vanity, Done, Vexation

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• What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

  Robert Stone

  Moving, Writing, Space

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• When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

  Neal Shusterman

  Heart, Reflection, Glasses

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• Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Moral Fiber, Stuff, Made

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.356, Dell

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• I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Poetic License, Dying, Understood

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• We are not perfect. What god is Examine yours. According to your mythos he was so disappointed with his initial efforts creating your race that he tried again. At least we imprisoned our mistakes. Your god permits his to roam free. At a mere few thousand years old your creation myths are far more absurd than ours.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mistake, Race, Years

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.40, Delacorte Press

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• Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

  Muriel Barbery

  What Matters, Want, Building

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September, 2008.

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• They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper that would roar and dip its nose and carry you off to the world. A mere matter of falling, yet no one ever fell. It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be cowards.

  Tim O'Brien

  Fall, Eye, Coward

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Aw, no. You’re taking us to that vegetarian place, aren’t you? It’s a coffee place. You can’t just automatically classify anything that isn’t a steak house as vegetarian. Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.

  Kevin Hearne

  Coffee, Yes I Can, Steak House

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “The Iron Druid Chronicles Starter Pack 3-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered”, p.333, Del Rey

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• A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

  China Mieville

  Way, Theory, Scholar

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• If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

  Sherwood Smith

  Play, Differences, Water

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.

  C. S. Lewis

  Gnats, People, Ordinary

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Mean, Origin Of Life

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• For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

  Julie Garwood

  Angel, Duncan, Accomplished

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Lying, Believe

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

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• She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

  Jane Austen

  Young, Contempt, Objects

  'Love and Freindship' (written 1790) 'Letter the 13th'

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• To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

  Eric Hoffer

  Reality, Men, Despair

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Reason, Poet, Mathematician

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

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• I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

  Jasper Fforde

  Teacher, Eight, Years

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• In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.

  John Calvin

  Religious, Thinking, People

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• My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just imagine, in a mere two years you’re at a profit.” “How I adore a woman who does mathematics in her head.” “I can forge signatures as well.” “Splendid. Exactly the bride I’ve been hoping for.

  Shana Abe

  Years, Two, Signatures

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• Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Instruments, Circumstances

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.207, VM eBooks

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• The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Relationship, Communication

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• I love the book. I love the feel of a book in my hands, the compactness of it, the shape, the size. I love the feel of paper. The sound it makes when I turn a page. I love the beauty of print on paper, the patterns, the shapes, the fonts. I am astonished by the versatility and practicality of The Book. It is so simple. It is so fit for its purpose. It may give me mere content, but no e-reader will ever give me that sort of added pleasure.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Simple, Hands

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Feb 05, 2013

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