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Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man… — Thomas Jefferson
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. — Ming-Dao Deng
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society… — Stephen King
...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of. — Eckhart Tolle
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is… — C.S. Lewis
The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering… — Pope Benedict XVI
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling… — Trinh T. Minh-ha
The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a… — Joseph Goebbels
You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! — C.S. Lewis
When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you… — Sara Gruen
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. — Bram Stoker
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself? — C.S. Lewis
To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off;… — Carlos Castaneda
I believe the poor fierce-eyed child had figured out that with a mere fifty dollars in her purse she might somehow reach Broadway or Hollywood… — Vladimir Nabokov
There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then… — Stanislaw Lem
No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. — A. S. Byatt
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled… — Rex Stout
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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