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The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead,… — Joseph Campbell
Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain… — Loretta Chase
What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is… — Katherine Mansfield
For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true — Robert Frost
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all… — Friedrich Nietzsche
i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything… — E E Cummings
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing… — Orson Scott Card
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own… — R A Salvatore
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone… — Brian Weiss
Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help… — Michel Foucault
Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace… — Seamus Heaney
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for… — Thomas Ligotti
There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would… — Viktor E. Frankl
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one… — P.G. Wodehouse
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The… — James Finn Garner
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,… — John Calvin
Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment… — Paulo Coelho
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… — Mary Wollstonecraft
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. — David O. McKay
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. — Albert Einstein
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I… — Samuel Beckett
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is… — Ernst Junger

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