Mere Quotes

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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum… — Henry Hazlitt
Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But… — Henry Hazlitt
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have been taught to… — Gene Wolfe
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are… — Emile Durkheim
The mere possibility provides no warrant for denying what I clearly grasp. — William Lane Craig
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,… — Samuel Morse
We are whirling through endless space, with and inconceivable speed, all around everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere there is energy. There must be… — Nikola Tesla
Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important.… — Chris Argyris
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. — James MacGregor Burns
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway… — Homer
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… — Thomas Huxley
For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and… — Andrew Jackson
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million… — Storm Jameson
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's… — Jim Steinmeyer
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software… — Tony Hoare
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",… — Unknown Author
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)… — Simone Weil
No State, upon it own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally nothing. I therefore… — Abraham Lincoln

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