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1764 Mere quotes by 1115 unique authors

We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural… — E. O. Wilson
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that… — Richard A. Clarke
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination.… — Herbert Gold
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition. — John O'Donohue
The more I find life to be a great design, the more I suspect it to be singular in existence; the more I suspect it… — Kedar Joshi
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books… — A. Edward Newton
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love… — Richard Rohr
We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — Alan Watts
The mere fact that so many who espouse such far-right views and beliefs still exist in this society is incarnate proof that Darwin's theories apply… — Derek R. Audette
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life… — Charles Kingsley
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of… — Isaac Newton
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what… — Jacob Bronowski
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,… — Alexander Pope
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which… — Henry Ward Beecher
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Satire is, indeed, the only sort of composition in which the Latin poets whose works have come down to us were not mere imitators of… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second… — Thomas de Quincey
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints… — James Russell Lowell

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