Mere Quotes

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Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere… — Robert Baden-Powell
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist… — William Johnson Sollas
The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined… — Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes… — Justus von Liebig
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. — Wilt Chamberlain
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. — D. H. Lawrence
Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don't fall, you'll learn a bit, but If you… — Jung Ae-ri
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as… — David Attenborough
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a… — Dmitri Mendeleev
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which… — Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God. — Frances Power Cobbe
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to… — David Brewster
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a… — Paul Davies
People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by… — Friedrich Engels
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those… — George Leef
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as… — Henry James Sumner Maine
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. — Joyce Carol Oates

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