Mere Quotes

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Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form. — Robyn Davidson
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. — Philip Wylie
It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness — Theodore Kaczynski
Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism… — Josemaria Escriva
Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in Godâ€™s will, whatever comes. — Amy Carmichael
Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin â€” it bends the will away… — Timothy Keller
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress. — Idries Shah
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve… — George Elliott Clarke
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths — Moses Mendelssohn
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. — Robert S. Kaplan
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature… — Augustus William Hare
When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. — Medard Boss
We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical… — Charles Simeon
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless… — Henry Mayhew
Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of… — Bill Bryson
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask… — Henry Bessemer
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value… — Georg Simmel
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good. — Mahatma Gandhi
Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon… — Isobel Miller Kuhn

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