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For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons… — Roger Rosenblatt
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of… — Daniel Dennett
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no… — Terry Eagleton
There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a… — P T Barnum
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place… — Charles A. Beard
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with… — James Mark Baldwin
I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on 'Iron Chef America,' but have also made some great… — Cat Cora
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as… — Wilhelm Dilthey
One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. — Alma Gluck
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can… — John Grierson
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offence to keep… — Joseph Story
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. — Elvis Costello
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. — John Stuart Mill
America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers… — Richard Allen Epstein
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to… — Joseph Sobran
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person. — Potter Stewart
To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is… — Felix Baumgartner
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,… — Allan Kaprow
You must all be aware that modern war is not a mere matter of military operations. It involves the whole strength and all the resources… — Chiang Kai-shek
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more… — Thomas Jefferson
Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But… — Pope Francis
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable… — Woodrow Wilson
The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods. — Rachel Hartman

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