Mere Quotes

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It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good factor that drives… — Johann Rupert
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of… — Martin Jacques
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled… — Walter Kirn
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were… — Noam Chomsky
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The… — Virginia Postrel
Most of our brain cells are glial cells, once thought to be mere support cells, but now understood as having a critical role in brain… — Thomas R. Insel
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The… — Shari Arison
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English… — Jules Verne
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its… — Jules Verne
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement. — Bhagat Singh
By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend,… — David Blunkett
For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors,… — Polybius
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of… — Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on… — Catherynne M. Valente
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere… — Joseph P. Bradley
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say… — Rick Perlstein
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I hate flying. My stomach churns at the mere thought of it. — Jonathan Dimbleby
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in… — Edward Frederic Benson

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