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One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been… — Anna Sewell
One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when… — Shirley Hazzard
Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course — Larry David
If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into… — Unknown Author
Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not… — Jose Arguelles
Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom and under what circumstances we say it. — Vaclav Havel
The world is blessed most by men who do things, not by those who merely talk about them. — Jamie Oliver
...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is a most venomous thing in… — Thomas Sprat
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Unknown Author
The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in… — Unknown Author
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie
A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it. — Kenneth Adelman
We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We… — William O. Douglas
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of… — John Gorrie
I do not think the division of the subject into two parts - into applied mathematics and experimental physics a good one, for natural philosophy… — Balfour Stewart
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the… — Unknown Author
The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating. — William H. Stewart

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