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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our… — Peter Julian Eymard
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you. — Ignatius Loyola
Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but it's merely the… — Steve Pavlina
Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course,… — Heinrich Heine
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His… — Abdul Kalam
To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far)… — Max More
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an… — Anais Nin
Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store And the dimes are the things that he needs, And I've been to buy… — Edgar Guest
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which… — Reginald Horace Blyth
You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you. — Dale Carnegie
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. — Amy Vanderbilt
They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul… — Guru Amar Das
I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create… — Abram Hoffer
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit.… — James Salter
Did Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews furnish structural material for Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon? It has been pointed out in these pages that… — B. H. Roberts
The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those… — Joseph Sobran
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. — William Faulkner
They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal.… — Bernard Rimland
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. — Hector Hugh Munro
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point… — Bliss Carman
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we… — Julia Cameron
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all… — Thomas Berry
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Unknown Author

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