Mere Quotes

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Perhaps that is the real surprise of love; it exists, but one may not attribute causes and effects to it. The existence may appear to… — Faraaz Kazi
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. — Erik Adigard
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied… — Albert Camus
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a… — James Madison
History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A… — Glenn Greenwald
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. — C.S. Lewis
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two… — Hermann Minkowski
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it… — Benjamin Haydon
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. — Zachary Taylor
I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when… — Placido Domingo
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. — William Wordsworth
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and… — Barack Obama
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and… — Plato
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring… — Plato
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.… — Paulo Coelho
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money;… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians… — Neville Chamberlain

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