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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final… — Immanuel Kant
â€¦* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.… — Sylvia Plath
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the… — Elie Wiesel
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books,… — John Green
A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves. — David Eagleman
But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled,… — David Klass
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness… — Alan Watts
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his… — Pope Benedict XVI
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him,… — Laura Hillenbrand
Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go… — Jennifer Estep
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is… — Pam Brown
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back… — William Golding
The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creatorâ€”to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the… — C.S. Lewis
Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing,… — Erin Morgenstern
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-oâ€™-the-wisps of… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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