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• Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.

  Harun Yahya

  Ignorance, Years, People

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• All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Freedom, Science

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

  Rollo May

  Inspiration, Heart, Blood

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

  Ron Reagan

  Kindness, Ignorance, Compassion

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 27, 2004.

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• Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

  Meher Baba

  Giving Up, Diversity, Fundamentals

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties.

  Anthony Burgess

  Prayer, Curiosity, Way

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• I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

  Charles Darwin

  Running, Sound, Rags

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• But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

  James Madison

  Character, Men, Human Nature

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.

  Joseph Story

  Party, Passion, Yesterday

  Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.303

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• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  Walter Lang

  Moon, Two, Mars

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• He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance of Trade, has not grasped the first fundamental principle of Political Economy.

  Ernst Engel

  Science, Political, Balance

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• Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Success, Selfish, Community

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.

  William Johnson Sollas

  Science, Years, People

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• The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.

  Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford

  Military, Hero, Fog

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• But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.

  Justus von Liebig

  Art, Knowledge, Science

  David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.2, Taylor & Francis

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• [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Fables, Tradition

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Success, Basketball, Sports

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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• One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Motivation, Rushing

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Do you know how much you can learn from a mere pair of high-heels? If you don't fall, you'll learn a bit, but If you do fall, you'll learn everything. If you become successful, you'll learn a bit, but if you fail, you'll get to learn everything. Success is the dumbest teacher, not the other way around

  Jung Ae-ri

  Teacher, Drama, Fall

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• As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

  Robert Bork

  Powerful, Government, Liberty

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• You've got to be fairly solemn [about the environment]. I mean the mere notion that there are three times as many people on Earth as there were when I started making television. How can the Earth accommodate them? When people, including politicians, set their faces against looking at the consequences-it's just unbelievable that anyone could ignore it.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Science, People

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• The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Science, Air, Castles

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• For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.

  Carl Ludwig

  Life, Science, Self

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• Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.

  Dennis T. Avery

  Rays, Energy, Records

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• Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.

  Ian Kershaw

  Long, History, Special

  Ian Kershaw (1998). “Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris”

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