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What Jesus did was not a mere example of something else, not a mere manifestation of some larger truth; it was itself the climactic event… — N. T. Wright
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one… — Stefan Zweig
The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in… — Elisabeth Elliot
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy… — Meher Baba
A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects… — Milan Kundera
I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is… — Brennan Manning
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,… — Lysander Spooner
It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with… — H. L. Mencken
As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm… — Ernst Haeckel
Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science. — Frank J. Tipler
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to… — Robert Liparulo
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live… — Christian D. Larson
A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and… — Beryl Markham
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and… — Sarah Bernhardt
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any… — Rudyard Kipling
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,… — Unknown Author
If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive recipients of information… — Paul Lockhart
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as… — Paulo Freire
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the… — Franz Grillparzer
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve… — Yukio Mishima
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. — Joseph Henry
If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul,… — Gary Vaynerchuk
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by… — Jacque Fresco

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