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Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or… — Obafemi Awolowo
All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national… — J M Coetzee
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where… — Goswami Kriyananda
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to… — Phillips Brooks
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. — George Eliot
Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light… — Douglas Adams
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the… — Edward Abbey
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. — Edmund Burke
Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed… — Benjamin Franklin
Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never… — Kurt Vonnegut
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no… — John Dewey
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.… — Gertrude Atherton
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us… — Sebastian Barry
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. — Carl Jung
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining… — Joan Didion
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence… — Martin Heidegger
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of… — Hannah Arendt
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life… — Hannah Arendt
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not… — Isadora Duncan

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