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I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when… — Placido Domingo
Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance. — William Wordsworth
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and… — Barack Obama
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and… — Plato
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring… — Plato
History will never change because of politics or conquests or theories or wars; that's mere repitition, it's been going on since the beginning of time.… — Paulo Coelho
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money;… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children and other civilians… — Neville Chamberlain
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror,… — Winston Churchill
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of… — Helen Keller
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a… — Laurens van der Post
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well. — Jane Welsh Carlyle
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any… — Paul Davies
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the… — Philip Wylie
I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a… — Frederick Douglass
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… — Andre Breton
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. — Georges Braque
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that… — Isaac Newton
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives… — David Ogilvy
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which… — Lytton Strachey
No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear… — Glenn Greenwald
My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. — William Banting
I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit… — Lucian Freud

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