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• Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Doe, Neutrality

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• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Opposites

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• Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment.

  Leon Trotsky

  Class, Division Of Labor, Leader

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.306, Penguin UK

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• Those who wish to control their own lives and move beyond existence as mere clients and consumers - those people ride a bike.

  Wolfgang Sachs

  Moving, Healing, People

  Wolfgang Sachs (1992). “For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back Into the History of Our Desires”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Success, Way, Doe

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.

  Russell Kirk

  Real, Special, Principles

  Russell Kirk (1978). “The conservative mind: from Burke to Eliot”

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• Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Memories, Self, Giving

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

  Aristotle

  Political, Noble, Sake

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.97, Aristotle

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• So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Information, Printing

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• Some days the mere fact of seeing feels like perfect happiness... You feel so rich you long to share your jubilation with others. The memory of such moments is my most precious possession. Maybe because there've been so few of them. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there-- even if you put them end to end they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds snatched from eternity.

  Robert Doisneau

  Memories, Two, Perfect

  Robert Doisneau (1980). “Photographs”

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• Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Expression, Disease, Absence

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• Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Respect, Prayer

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• Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

  Watchman Nee

  Believe, Tests, Spirit

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.102, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Self, Effort

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• And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Deeds, Excuse

  "Tony Abbott rules out changes to the G.S.T". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. September 20, 2013.

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• The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

  Lucan

  Evil, Danger, Situation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 158-60, Pharsalia, VII. 104, 1922.

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• I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!" He demanded."I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I rise with the moon. I am a mere immortal soul that feasts on your fears and flesh.""Why won't you answer my question correctly!

  Miranda Leek

  Moon, Soul, Answers

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• There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Understanding, Brain, Development

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• Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Pain, Exercise, Needs

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• Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

  Guy Murchie

  Flying, Exhilaration, Strange

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Purpose, Highest

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Scum Of The Earth, Waterloo

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 4 Nov. 1831)

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• Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.

  Napoleon Hill

  Hurt, Men, Needs

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.59, Penguin

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• The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Artist, Men, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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