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America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers… — Richard Allen Epstein
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to… — Joseph Sobran
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. — Potter Stewart
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is… — Felix Baumgartner
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,… — Allan Kaprow
You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources… — Chiang Kai-shek
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more… — Thomas Jefferson
Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But… — Pope Francis
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservationâ€”until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… — Woodrow Wilson
The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods. — Rachel Hartman
We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural… — E. O. Wilson
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that… — Richard A. Clarke
The compelling thing about making artâ€”or making anything, I supposeâ€”is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination.… — Herbert Gold
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. — John O'Donohue
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it… — Kedar Joshi
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books… — A. Edward Newton
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love… — Richard Rohr

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