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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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• The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Voice, Acting, Noise

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• It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

  Vin Scully

  Stars, Carpe Diem, Men

  Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.

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• History without politics descends to mere Literature.

  John Robert Seeley

  History, Literature

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• Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

  John Robert Seeley

  Sight, History, Literature

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Adversity, Suffering, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

  Herman Melville

  Identity, Gone, Free Will

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.239

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• It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discipline, Materialism, Old Fashioned

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Attitude, Ambition

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not unfrequently — like the effect of a fog or moonshine — gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Data

  "On War".

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• Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.

  Emile Durkheim

  Reality, Thinking, Groups

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• Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find.

  Francois Magendie

  Humble, Humility, Science

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• Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, People, Opiates

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• In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Religion, Wish

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• Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Stupidity, You Like It, Folly

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

  Pico Iyer

  Light, Japan, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Supposing That, Mind, Brain

  "Possible worlds, and other essays". Book by J. B. S. Haldane, 1927.

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• The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Struggle, Vanity

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• I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Eye, Want

  William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.111, Broadview Press

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• When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.

  Carl Jung

  Moving, Our World, Awakening

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• And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

  Alan Watts

  People, World, Want

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• And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Pain, Rip, Soul

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.169, Macmillan

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