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Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such… — Simon Mainwaring
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of… — Nelson Mandela
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. — Karl Marx
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only… — Karl Marx
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being,… — Rollo May
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive… — Thabo Mbeki
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. — Bryant H. McGill
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for… — Bryant H. McGill
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. — Phyllis McGinley
So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major… — Danica McKellar
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension… — Marshall McLuhan
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely… — Margaret Mead
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. — Golda Meir
There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. — Herman Melville
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. — H. L. Mencken
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians… — H. L. Mencken
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. — H. L. Mencken
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which… — John Stuart Mill
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion… — John Stuart Mill
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. — Henry Miller

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