Mere Quotes

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Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission. — Pope Francis
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes,… — Ruth Pitter
Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the… — Stephen Crane
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow… — Laozi
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the… — Kenny Smith
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice… — John Ruskin
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to… — Alexander Hamilton
There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether… — Alexander Hamilton
The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts… — James Madison
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will… — Alexander Hamilton
Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana. — Vinoba Bhave
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of… — Guy Murchie
The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece… — Unknown Author
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without… — Jerome K. Jerome
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine… — Nelson Mandela
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to… — Karl Marx
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the… — John Keats
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:… — George Bernard Shaw
Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also… — Aristotle
Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects -… — J. Allen Hynek
At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from… — Armstrong Williams

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