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• My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. — William Banting
• The final test of religious faith... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether… — Reinhold Niebuhr
• When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value… — P. M. Forni
• She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs… — Edith Wharton
• All that once was directly lived has become mere representation. — Guy Debord
• How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from… — Joseph Sobran
• It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho
• We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness. — Alan Watts
• A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives… — Richard Schickel
• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed… — William James
• See what I have become? Mere shadow and vapor... I have form only when I can share another's body -… — Voldemort
• The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger… — Unknown Author

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