Mere Quotes

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The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic.… — Felix Adler
For the mere act of thinking a course expedient, when it is morally wrong, is demoralizing. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
We deeply regret Sen. Frist's endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating… — David Stevens
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do… — Oscar Wilde
New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake… — Marshall McLuhan
Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a… — Karl Von Clausewitz
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would… — Edgar Allan Poe
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny… — Felix Frankfurter
A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. — Blaise Pascal
But when I faced you in my blank confusion, I realized you weren't wrong, it was a mere illusion. — Daft Punk
The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution. — Steve Maraboli
Browse : 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V… — Sugar Minott
These things you're gonna onto and, you're just a mere child who growing so wild you need protection, some love and direction. — Sugar Minott
See what I have become? Mere shadow and vapor... I have form only when I can share another's body - but there have always been… — Voldemort
You just... know? Once again, you astonish me with your gifts Potter. Gifts mere mortals could only dream of possessing. How grand it must be,… — Severus Snape
Dumbledore's been driven out of this school by the mere memory of me! — Lord Voldemort
The gold of Cortez. The jewels of Pizarro / Will seem like mere trinkets by this time tomorrow / The gold we find here will… — Pocahontas
I have sacrificed much to achieve peace. So too must a new generation sacrifice to maintain that peace. Responsibility! Duty! Honour! These are not mere… — Thor
To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory from Zeus, Achilles will prove… — Cedric H Whitman
An athlete was never made by mere instruction. No soldier was ever trained by the mere study of his manual, but by practicing his drill.… — Outlook

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