Mere Quotes

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If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared… — Thomas Paine
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria — Goodluck Jonathan
I have always been amazed at my contemporariesâ€™ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself. — Samuel Beckett
America is a mere bully, from one end to the other, and the Bostonians by far the greatest bullies. — Thomas Gage
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the… — Joseph Nye
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of… — Adrienne Rich
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. — Robertson Davies
Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end,… — Frank Norris
In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on… — Reed Hastings
The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them. — Henry Mitchell
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. — W. Edwards Deming
All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. — Guy Debord
Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. — Mignon McLaughlin
A mere nothing suffices â€” and the lightning strikes. — Hermann Hesse
Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations… — Lewis Mumford
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. — Matthew Syed
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to… — Murray Bookchin

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