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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere… — Albert Einstein
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's… — Rollo May
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. — Ron Reagan
But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. — James Madison
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show… — Meher Baba
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a… — Anthony Burgess
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s]… — Charles Darwin
Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes… — Joseph Story
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. — Walter Lang
He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance… — Ernst Engel
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere… — Robert Baden-Powell
The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist… — William Johnson Sollas
The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined… — Unknown Author
But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes… — Justus von Liebig
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. — Wilt Chamberlain
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. — D. H. Lawrence
Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don't fall, you'll learn a bit, but If you… — Jung Ae-ri
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we… — Robert Bork
You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as… — David Attenborough
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a… — Dmitri Mendeleev
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough… — Carl Ludwig
For truly in nature there are many operations that are far more than mechanical. Nature is not simply an organic body like a clock, which… — Unknown Author
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God. — Frances Power Cobbe
A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to… — David Brewster

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