"Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting……" — Ursula K. Le Guin

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• The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
• Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain… — Honore de Balzac
• The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
• Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very… — Tyra Banks
• Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with… — Mario Batali
• Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,… — Evan Bayh
• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
• Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of… — Annie Besant
• No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by… — Theodore Bikel
• The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker

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