Mere Quotes

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Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who… — Susan Hockfield
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is… — Charlotte Mason
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. — Karl Marx
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there… — Alfred North Whitehead
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of… — Thomas Frank
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of… — Mahatma Gandhi
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. — Annette Funicello
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes… — Neil Gaiman
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a… — Mahatma Gandhi
A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about. — Newt Gingrich
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in,… — William Godwin
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will… — Emma Goldman
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking… — Joseph Conrad
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that… — Davy Crockett
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were… — Marie Curie
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. — Emily Dickinson

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