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"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult." »Fran Lebowitz
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"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship." »Aristotle
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"Purpose without power is mere weakness and deception; and power without purpose is mere fatuity." »Sa?di
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"The mere sense of living is joy enough." »Emily Dickinson
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke." »Hermann Hesse
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"Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition." »Alexander Hodge
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"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone." »Charles Darwin
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"Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"a man is but a mere piece of meat marinated by the juices of his successes" »anthony mojarro
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"The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger." »Lucan
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"To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff." »The Hitopadesa
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"The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend." »Logan Pearsall Smith
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"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it." »H. L. Mencken
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"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise." »Lewis Thomas
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"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort." »Charles Dickens
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." »Carl Jung
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"A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it." »H.L. Mencken
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"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." »Anna Jameson
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"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding." »Ezra Loomis Pound
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"Whosoever lends a greedy ear to a slanderous report is either himself of a radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense." »Menander
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." »Carl Gustav Jung
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"If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming." »Metastasio
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"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species." »Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
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"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself." »John Ruskin
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"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing." »Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
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"I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure." »Marquis de Sade
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"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink." »F. H. Bradley
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"Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy." »E. H. Chapin
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"Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." »William Butler Yeats
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