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“To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.”

Ends Sound Break Records Events Mere Extremes Missions Accomplished Barriers Records Breaking

Author:Felix Baumgartner

“In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.”

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?”

Stills Animal Events Equal Members Direct Claims Mere Clubs Farms Commonwealth Blair Zimbabwe

Author:Robert Mugabe

“I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.”

Knows Kind Self Causes Justice Results Cases Events Mere Expected Application Thieves Evident Worldly Calculations Extravagant

Author:Robert Charles Wilson

“Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.”

Ifs May Mean Doe Use Causes Term Chance Fate Events Luck Errors Fortune Mere Practicals Dependence Vocabulary Employed Kindred Heathen Bad Word

Book:The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality

Source: The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality

“Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's not, it's not fun at all. In either event, painting is always deeply fulfilling.”

Thinking Wells Fun Events Painting Mere Profound Painter Fulfilling

Author:Steven Whitney

“Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes for pushing a lever and then retreating to passivity, for democracy demands committed participation in the daily workings of society.”

People Country Sports Democracy Events Demand Election Mere Committed Compare Pushing Participation Observers Spectators Passivity Levers Daily Work

Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.”

Art Memories Events Produce Mere Journalism Sensitive Chronicles

Author:Hallie Burnett

“But the thing is, from the perspective of a novelist there is a brand of lying that feels more honest than the actual facts of an event. Lying as a way to move closer to the truth, or to illuminate ow something actually feels in a way the mere facts cannot.”

Way Feels Facts Moving Lying Honest Events Perspective Mere Brands Novelists

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”

Heart Kind Moments Character Facts Might Interesting Written Events Letters Mere Excuse Familiar Collections Compass Hopes And Fears Undecided

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Richardson (Illustrated)

“I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.”

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

“Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.”

Has Beens Term Events Mere Metaphor Literary Terms

Book:Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!”

Way Said Jesus Events Crosses Mere Events In History

Author:John Piper

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.”

Ends Moments Seems Behinds Our Lives Events Raises Mere Chaos Leaving Accidents Isolation Overwhelming Contemplating Succession

Author:Karl Jaspers

“It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.”

Ifs Knows Way Real Reality Would Be Causes Accepting Cutting Impossible Events Regard Mere Rate Insight Throat Consistently Irrational Naturalism

Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.”

Humans Events Mere Accidents Greek Cosmic Human Experience Spectators Chorus Sideshows Greek Chorus

Author:Terence McKenna

“Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.”

Should Long Doe Past Understanding Events Mere Patient Emphasis Past Events

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

“You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.”

Matter Courses Attitude Events Mere Change Your Attitude

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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