Mere Quotes

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With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves… — Mariella Frostrup
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists,… — Odell Shepard
The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn that their Lord… — Helmut Thielicke
Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs;… — Ralph Cudworth
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a… — Alma Gluck
Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while… — Eboo Patel
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others… — Laura Schlessinger
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained… — Leonhard Euler
A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should… — Howard Whitley Eves
Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply… — Joyce Maynard
Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. — Miguel de Cervantes
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that… — Thomas Merton
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as… — Ernest Renan
The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. — Georgy Zhukov
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. — Bergen Evans
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. — Theodor Adorno
The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing… — Bianca Jagger
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of… — John Sergeant Wise
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and… — Brian Ferneyhough

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