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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview.… — Paul Ryan
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. — F. H. Bradley
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along… — Harry A. Blackmun
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic… — Mahatma Gandhi
A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians.… — Abdul Kalam
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not… — Richard Baxter
Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy… — Ingrid Newkirk
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask… — Tom Regan
Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time… — Mary McLeod Bethune
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in… — John Dryden
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… — Herman Melville
Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most… — Oscar Romero
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although… — William Shakespeare
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular… — John Haynes Holmes
Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't… — Henry Arthur Jones
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort. — Alex Faickney Osborn
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend. — Helen Keller
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of… — C.S. Lewis
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools… — Jonathan Swift
Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our… — Clementine Ford

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