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A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade… — John Gresham Machen
The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they… — Joseph Sobran
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not… — Theodor Adorno
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is… — Herbert Marcuse
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and… — Max Born
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. — Woodrow Wilson
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when… — Ferdinand Mount
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual… — Rene Dubos
The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation. — John Maynard Keynes
Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff… — Dan Farmer
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that… — Lukas Foss
We are sliding back into a dark era, and there seems little we can do about it. I am profoundly depressed at just how difficult… — Nina Fedoroff
Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy. — Phillip E. Johnson
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free… — Peter Kreeft
The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence. — William C. Brown
You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the… — W. Somerset Maugham
In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following… — Goh Chok Tong
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. — Erica Jong
Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example… — Jairam Ramesh
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with… — Josephine Tey
To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously.… — Todd Hido
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed. — Paracelsus

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