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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Wall, Real

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Teacher, Inspiration

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• The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Water, Design

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.

  Ian Mcewan

  Stress, Believe, Opportunity

  Ian McEwan (1999). “Amsterdam”

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• Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

  John Green

  Hurt, Love You, Sadness

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• We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Believe, Indulge In, Challenges

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• Sam could not help but be pleased. "So. Astrid needs me." Brianna rolled her eyes. "Yeah, Sam, you're still necessary. You're like a god to us mere mortals. We can't live without you. Later we're going to build you a temple. Satisfied?

  Michael Grant

  Eye, Needs, Temples

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• Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Son, Goal

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.23, Bantam

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• Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

  H. G. Wells

  Cheer, Self, Patriotism

  "The Future in America: A Search After Realities". Book by H. G. Wells, 1906.

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• The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.

  Hassan II of Morocco

  Inspirational, Peace, Kings

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• The mere absence of war is not peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Military

  Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. January 14, 1963.

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• Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

  George Farquhar

  Poetry, Drug

  'Love and a Bottle' (1698) act 3, sc. 2.

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• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Respect, Mean, Men

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• Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Science, Achievement, Experience

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• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Believe, Self

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

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• Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden).

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Unique, Two

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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