Mere Quotes

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. — Rabindranath Tagore
You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not… — Serj Tankian
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all… — Lewis Thomas
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. — John Updike
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy… — Lech Walesa
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far… — Isaac Watts
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. — Rebecca West
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — Elwyn Brooks White
True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and… — Ellen G. White
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches. — George Whitefield
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available.… — Daniel H. Wilson
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere… — Frank R. Wolf
The mere imparting of information is not education. — Carter G. Woodson
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he… — Arthur Young
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really… — Julian Baggini
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who… — Michael Eric Dyson
The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience. — Anurag Kashyap
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. — Evgeny Morozov
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the… — Virginia Woolf
The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement. — Christopher Hitchens

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