“We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to make out that the one is a mere perversion of the other. Therefore when we include both types under a general term like government, we get into logical difficulties; difficulties of which most writers on the subject have been more or less vaguely aware, but which, until within the last half-century, none of them has tried to resolve.” Has BeensTwoGovernmentLastsPoliticalTermHalfImpossibleSubjectsCenturyTypeOrganizationAccountsDifficultyMereLogicalResolvePerversionMake Out Author:Albert J. Nock
“To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.” MenGivingLastsTurnsCenturyMastersGiving UpBeatsSlaveMereHeavyLegsChainsConvinceStakesElephantsCircusNo Hope Author:Glenn Beck
“Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.” IfsMayHas BeensAnswersCenturyIgnoranceProveAuthorityAccountsTwentiesRemainsMereFinalsAcceptedEsteemFollowersTestedSuccessorsTolerableApproximation Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.” MenTwoThreeHappenedCenturyMastersWorshipMereAntiquity Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.” WantHumansUniverseCreativityModernCenturyScientistMethodMerePersistenceConceptionTributeScientific Method Book:A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
“That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.” WritingLongStillsBookPlayLastsScienceEnergyForceSpaceClearCenturyStrangeReadyFitMereVariousTricksBlockSymbolsTitlesPhrasesShockEquationsVariationCreepsNewtonPupilsBarbersNomenclatureSmall WordsViva Author:James Clerk Maxwell
“I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.” PeopleThinkingShouldPersonsHandsMightDiesAbilityWonderfulShareTeachingCenturyMessagesGloryMouthsMereLipsMourningBrilliance Author:Charles Spurgeon
“The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life's purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough...we must live them!” IfsKnowsEnoughWould BeSpiritDesirePurposeVisionCenturyBlessedMerePatternsCreatorPossessionBeing BlessedGreat Spirit Author:Tim McCoy