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If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with… — Brigham Young
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far,… — Benjamin Cardozo
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal,… — Saint Francis de Sales
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man… — Luther Burbank
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of… — Orson Welles
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if… — Theodore Roosevelt
The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that… — Theodore Roosevelt
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get… — Saint Basil
Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm… — Alexander von Humboldt
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon… — John Muir
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that… — Theodore Roosevelt
Good teachers are not known for telling you what you want to hear, and consequently they're rarely popular because they tend to offend people on… — Frederick Lenz
Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of… — Pico Iyer
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating,… — Michael Jackson
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a… — Thucydides
Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem… — Adrian Desmond
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror,… — Bernard Herrmann
The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They… — Courtney Summers
Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is… — William Walsh
Live or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. — Muriel Barbery
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the… — Muhammad Asad
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear… — Criss Jami
Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom… — Lawrence Millman

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