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It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this. — Unknown Author
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere… — Larry Harvey
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters — Sandrine Bonnaire
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in… — Diego Rivera
When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to… — Kurt Schwitters
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all… — Peggy Orenstein
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea — Francis Parker Yockey
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit… — Nadia Boulanger
The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems… — Sarada Devi
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We… — Carl Jung
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed… — Thomas Merton
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the… — Hirohito
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification. — Richard Wall
We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated… — Alan Watts
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the… — Ivan Pavlov
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned… — John Dryden
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of… — Charles Evans Hughes
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to… — Thomas Hodgskin
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process. — Arthur Middleton
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. — Aung San Suu Kyi
Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds… — Charles Dickens
Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking… — Aldous Huxley
The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super',… — Aron Nimzowitsch
In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories. — Wes Fesler

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